Tom Lehrer Quotes
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.
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We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people who are working at hedge funds or other investment managers who are trading cryptocurrency personally, the question is, when do people start doing it with their firms and funds?
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There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.
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World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'
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Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
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A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
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I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'
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Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
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When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records.
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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
