Tom Lehrer Quotes

Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

Tom Lehrer

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• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Hard

• It's not so easy to forgive.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Easy
  • Forgive

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • House
  • Attention
  • Focus

• It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Easy
  • Ugly
  • Tough

• In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Feel
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Past
  • Community
  • Easy

• And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Husband
  • Find
  • Easy

• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Design
  • Easy
  • Performance

• Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Taken
  • Enough
  • Easy

• If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Job
  • Doing
  • Easy

• Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

  

  Laura Dern
  • You
  • Hate
  • Easy

• Since I'm on a tour bus, sometimes it's really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Always
  • Matter

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Good
  • Interesting

• When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Easy

• Nothing is easy, and life can be extremely tough, but there's always a yin to the yang, so to speak. It's up to you to seek it out, embrace it, and live happily ever after. No matter how bad the hand you've been dealt may seem, there's always a way to play it.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Speak
  • Easy
  • Tough

• God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

  

  William Cowper
  • Way
  • Moving
  • Wonder

• It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

  

  Casey Stoner
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Sports

• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Busy

• Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Easy
  • Hard
  • Wit