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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. -

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. – Lester Bangs

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Future
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Lester Bangs
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They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

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Heroes/Heroism
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Lester Bangs
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The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no. – Lester Bangs

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Emotions
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Lester Bangs
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Im the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. – Arthur Miller

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Entertainment

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

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Entertainment

The reason Im in this business, I assume all performers are — its Look at me, Ma! Its acceptance, you know — Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, youll show off till youre exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! – Lenny Bruce

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Entertainment

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles

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Entertainment

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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. – Arab Proverb

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Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. – Bruce Calvert

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We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesnt reimburse us on any of these things. – Jan Brewer

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Education

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

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Censorship