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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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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. – Lester Bangs

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Society
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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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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. – Anita Loos

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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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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong

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Pride is the mask of ones own faults. – Yiddish Proverb

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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. – Al Gore

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Slow help is no help. – Proverb

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. – Albert Einstein

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