Quote by Lester Bangs
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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Its much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. – Lester Bangs

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Politics
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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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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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Entertainment
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We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

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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 Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early

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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

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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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great

The problem with me is, anything thats easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But Im 14 – my mom is super-strict about that. – Chloe Moretz

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mom

Politics is gut commercials are gut. – Frank Luntz

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Politics

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. – David Sarnoff

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Failure