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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It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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I have to be a little bit guarded, because I can be very open and I like to include people, but then again I have to remind myself to be careful.
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It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
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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.
