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...').
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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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.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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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.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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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.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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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.
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Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.
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I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.
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My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only thing important to me was that they be good people who help other people, because all religion should try to make you a better person and a more caring person. Whenever religion does that for you, it's a good religion.
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I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.
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These are hard subjects to talk about because you can sound like such a dickhead. I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects. I want to build my house on a rock, because even if the waters are not high around the house, I'm going to bring back a storm. I have that in me. So it's sort of underpinning for me.
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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...').
