Almost Famous Lester Bangs Quotes

#1. If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Our society respects power, not excellence or integrity. Power-driven systems resemble the jungle. The

Chetan Bhagat

#3. We will never find a "good" solution to the question of abortion. What we need to do is to back away from the idea that there is an ideological "fix" to every problem. Then again, that's just one opinion. And I could be wrong. I often am.

Frank Schaeffer

#4. I dont understand how people live without creating

Samuel L. Jackson

#5. What is an unconditional state?

Asa Don Brown

#6. When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

Steven Wright

#7. The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

Roland Joffe

#8. Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Julius Nyerere

#9. It hurt to see the hatred on her face, pure and astonished, but sometimes a bit of pain's just what we need: to cauterize the wound, burn out the infection. She saw me and I saw her, both of us stripped of pretence in that empty moment, newlyweds naked for their conjugals.

Mark Lawrence

#10. When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Max Greenfield

#11. Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

Bertrand Russell