Lester Bangs Quotes
O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').Lester Bangs
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
I don't have business with any politicians.
Carlos Slim -
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
Carl Hiaasen -
Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
Frances McDormand -
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
Daniel Clowes
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
J. R. Celski -
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
Ted Cruz -
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo -
I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
Olivia Colman -
In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
Rachel True -
The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
Floyd Abrams -
I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
Ted Yoho -
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings -
I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
Vidya Balan -
There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
Laura Bell Bundy -
McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
Becky Lynch
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Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.
Chris Gibson -
I actually don't get massages very much. But Epsom salt baths are better than any massage.
Emilia Clarke -
A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality.
James Mangold -
I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously.
Charles de Gaulle -
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
John Shelby Spong -
O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').
Lester Bangs