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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off."
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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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"That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval."
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
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"When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others."
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"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."
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"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."
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"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."
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"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
Baseball
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
Art
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