Tom Lehrer Quotes
And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.
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When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.
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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.
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Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.
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There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.
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As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.
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I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
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And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
