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The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician. ↗

— Max Lerner

#being #call #columnist #dream #politician

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride. ↗

— Max Lerner

#his #hit #judged #makes #president

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Max Lerner

#civilization #consumers #get #our #ourselves

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #disappointing #disapproval #found #freedom

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. ↗

— Max Lerner

#america #brand #competition #freedom #idea

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. ↗

— Max Lerner

#lessons #most #part #rationalizations #so-called

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#consistency #could #felt #fine #great

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#aware #band #because #becoming #break