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Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Growth is transcending yourself, your habitual self, which is none other than ego. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Harlan Ellison

I intend to keep writing stories that piss people off, that tell the particular kind of truth I think is valid, that will make me feel more and more like a Writer of Stature, Which I honestly think I am, really, I mean it, I don't doubt it for a second dammit, so stop giggling! Stories that will make Dr Shedd sniff the air and make Lester smile as je thinks, The kid's coming along all right. — Harlan Ellison

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Nervousness is caused by wanting two opposing things at the same time, one consciously and the other subconsciously. The battle is resolved when you make the subconscious desire conscious. On the other hand, if you know what you are, there will be no conflicts. You can do that through seeking. It is not necessary to understand the negative. It is far better to be positive. Be Your Self. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Phil Lester

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death. — Phil Lester

Lester Quotes By Muriel Lester

How ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him! — Muriel Lester

Lester Quotes By Jon Lester

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when. — Jon Lester

Lester Quotes By Mark Lester

I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out. — Mark Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

The only limitations you have are the ones that you accept. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Rick Riordan

Lester (Apollo) Still human; thanks for asking Gods, I hate my life WHEN — Rick Riordan

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

All minds are interconnected. Otherwise they could not understand each other. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Jon Lester

I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while. — Jon Lester

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling.
- Jenna Richards — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

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

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Kate DiCamillo

Mon Dieu, look, look," says Antoinette. "He lives. He lives! And he seems such the happy mouse."
"Forgiven," whispers Lester.
"Cripes," says Furlough, "unbelievable."
"Just so," says the threadmaster, Hovis, smiling. "Just so."
And, reader, it is just so.
Isn't it? — Kate DiCamillo

Lester Quotes By Kate Banks

Repeating a mantra quiets the mind," Lester's mother had said. "And it provides comfort in trying times." Then she had reached her palms skyward and bent forward into an upside-down V. Lester's mother was a yoga teacher and spent a lot of time in strange and unusual positions. These were certainly trying times for Lester, who had moved from Denver to Cape Cod just after Easter and was going to start a new school in two days' time. "A mantra can even unlock great virtues within," Lester's mother had added. Lester liked the idea that there might be great virtues lurking within him waiting to be unleashed, and he wondered what those — Kate Banks

Lester Quotes By Lester Beall

A designer ... has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality. — Lester Beall

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart. — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Marvin Gaye

I'd been studying the microphone for a dozen years, and I suddenly saw what I'd been doing wrong. I'd been singing too loud. One night I was listening to a record by Lester Young, the horn player, and it came to me. Relax, just relax. It's all going to be all right. — Marvin Gaye

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Mark Lester

I don't think I was a monstrous child. I don't think I was ever allowed to be. — Mark Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Roloff

The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible. — Lester Roloff

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Patricia MacLachlan

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off ... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.' — Patricia MacLachlan

Lester Quotes By Phil Lester

Marriage is just a piece of paper if it's not a happy one. — Phil Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Roloff

The Television is the monster of hell. — Lester Roloff

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Mark Lester

They do put my films on TV from time to time. I don't go out of my way to watch them. But I'm now made to tape them for my daughter so that when she's old enough she can say, 'Hey, that's Daddy.' — Mark Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Bowie

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or anyone else. — Lester Bowie

Lester Quotes By Flea

I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians. — Flea

Lester Quotes By Lester Joseph Foltos

Effective Peer Coaches emphasize inquiry over advocacy. Too much advocacy can produce learned helplessness. Inquiry builds capacity to improve teaching and learning by helping teachers to be more effective at designing and implementing learning activities that meet the needs of their students. — Lester Joseph Foltos

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you? — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

The problem with water, though, is that the shortfalls don't show up until the very end. You can go on pumping unsustainably until the day you run out. Then all you have is the recharge flow, which comes from precipitation. This is not decades away, this is years away. We're already seeing huge shortages in China, where the Yellow River runs dry for part of each year. The Yellow River is the cradle of Chinese civilization. It first failed to reach the sea in 1972, and since 1985 it's run dry for part of each year. For 1997 it was dry for 226 days. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Lester Del Rey

Misinterpretation is the most deadly of human sins. — Lester Del Rey

Lester Quotes By Lester Bowie

Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times ... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes! — Lester Bowie

Lester Quotes By Lee Konitz

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal. — Lee Konitz

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Lester Swan

THE MAJOR WAY TO CONQUER FEAR IS TO MAKE A DECISION. — Lester Swan

Lester Quotes By Lester Beall

The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry. — Lester Beall

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Parliaments cannot right the world; but enough individuals feeling love can. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By W. Howard Lester

I have been maturing as a teacher. — W. Howard Lester

Lester Quotes By Muriel Lester

The first casualty in every war is truth. — Muriel Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

If the main reason we listen to music in the first place is to hear passion expressed- as i've believed all my life-then what good is this music going to prove to be? what does that say about us? what are we confirming in ourselves by doting on art that is emotionally neutral? and, simultaneously, what in ourselves might we be destroying or at least keeping down? — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Young

The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand. — Lester Young

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

A young woman is dead. I don't care. You probably don't care. The police don't care. The papers don't care. The punks for the most part don't care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I'm almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Grinspoon

Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia — Lester Grinspoon

Lester Quotes By Ben Webster

I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton's [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself - we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn't a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton's and started to play - well, they'd give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I'd take my horn down, or I'd go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then. — Ben Webster

Lester Quotes By Muriel Lester

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked. — Muriel Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Jon Lester

You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game. — Jon Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

Farmers ... can no longer keep up with rising demand; thus the outlook is for chronic scarcities and rising prices. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Andrew D. Lester

hope, although rooted in the past and acted out in the present, receives its energy from the future. — Andrew D. Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music. — Lester Holt

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Hale Dwoskin

Lester Levenson used to say, 'Release and allow yourself to see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be.' During this process, welcome your thoughts, your sensations, your feelings, and the stories that you tell yourself. Just allow them all to be here, and know that everything is okay as it is. Part of what happens when we release this is that we start to recognize the perfection underlying our thoughts and feelings. Begin by making yourself comfortable and focusing your attention inwardly. Now, bring to mind ... an issue that's currently up in your awareness. As you think about that situation, problem, intention, or goal, allow yourself to get in touch with your feelings about it right in this very moment.
Hale Dwoskin

Lester Quotes By Andre Dubus III

Lester wanted to rise up out of this like a cloud, to drift over the valley and shore to the Pacific, to dissolve into its huge green expanse like rain. — Andre Dubus III

Lester Quotes By Lester Bowie

They were missing all the enthusiasm, the creativity; that whole excitement about the music was lost. A lot of people are really going back looking for that. — Lester Bowie

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Sally Phillips

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film. — Sally Phillips

Lester Quotes By Lester Levenson

Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love. — Lester Levenson

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

We know what we have to do. And we know how to do it. If we fail to convert our self-destructing economy into one that is environmentally sustainable, future generations will be overwhelmed by environmental degradation and social disintegration. Simply stated, if our generation does not turn things around, our children may not have the option of doing so. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

Rock 'n' roll is an attitude, it's not a musical form of a strict sort. It's a way of doing things, of approaching things. Writing can be rock 'n' roll, or a movie can be rock 'n' roll. It's a way of living your life. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Bowie

Because I believe that the future of the music lies in the Internet. It can be sold on the Internet. — Lester Bowie

Lester Quotes By Lester Swan

WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART. — Lester Swan

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple. — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine. — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Herbie Mann

As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane. — Herbie Mann

Lester Quotes By Lester J. Cappon

Before this reaches you, you will have learned, the Circumstances of the Insurrections in England,13 which discover So deep and So general a discontent and distress, that no wonder the Nation Stands gazing at one another, in astonishment, and Horror. To what Extremities their Confusions will proceed, no Man can tell. They Seem unable to unite in any Principle and to have no Confidence in one another. Thus it is, when Truth and Virtue are lost: These Surely, are not the People who ought to have absolute authority over Us. In all Cases whatsoever, this is not the nation which is to bring Us to unconditional Submission. — Lester J. Cappon

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint. — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Lester Wunderman

Arthur Hughes is one of the pioneers of modern database marketing. His new book, Strategic Database Marketing, Third Edition, contains the wisdom of twenty years of database marketing experience from scores of companies throughout the US. I can heartily endorse Arthur's book for anyone who wants to know the state of the art in database marketing today. — Lester Wunderman

Lester Quotes By Julius Lester

But I want you around even when I don't need you.
- Jeremy Richards — Julius Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Buddy Lester

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me. — Buddy Lester

Lester Quotes By Lester R. Brown

Global food insecurity is increasing ... the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing. — Lester R. Brown

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester B. Pearson

Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models. — Lester B. Pearson

Lester Quotes By Zoot Sims

We were all influenced by Lester [Young]. Listen to the records that he made with [Count] Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy. — Zoot Sims

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't 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

Lester Quotes By Sherman Alexie

Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again. — Sherman Alexie

Lester Quotes By Stephen King

Lester Coggins was a lifelong bachelor who as an adolescent had suffered nightmares of masturbating and looking up to see Mary Magdalene standing in his bedroom doorway. — Stephen King

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

It's 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

Lester Quotes By Lester Holt

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together. — Lester Holt

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Lester Thurow

Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like. — Lester Thurow

Lester Quotes By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad said, reaching around to get the butter out of the fridge.
'No, I was just wondering what you would say if I was a lesbian.'
'Come again?' said Lester. 'I'm having a hard time following this conversation. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Lester Quotes By Lester Holt

I've never been one to carry race on my sleeve, and I've never been one to really use my race. — Lester Holt

Lester Quotes By Lester Bowie

Jazz groups have to make a living any way. — Lester Bowie

Lester Quotes By Lester Bangs

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts. — Lester Bangs

Lester Quotes By Maria Waters

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement. — Maria Waters