Tom Lehrer Quotes
No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
Quotes to Explore
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
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Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.
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I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
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Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
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Thank God I'm an atheist.
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
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If the televangelists are guilty of producing some simple-minded, self-righteous Christians, then the atheist authors are guilty of producing self-congratulatory buffoons like Condell.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
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I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
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Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
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It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television.
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No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant.
