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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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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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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We're going to get off fossil fuels, no question. We may not do it quickly enough to avoid some pain, and I'm quite worried about that. But by the 22nd century, there's no way we'll be on fossil fuels.
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My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.
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Remembered reading once that a person had to grieve for half the length of the relationship itself. She’d lived with Glenn for nearly four years. Surely she must be close to finished by now.
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I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
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No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.
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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
