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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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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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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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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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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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"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
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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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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."
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"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."
Nothing
"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
"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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"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."
Art
"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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