Tom Lehrer Quotes
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Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
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There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.
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A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.
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With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.
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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
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When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
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If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
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There is no need to carry me to another prison. My life is already ebbing away. I suggest that you nail me to a cross and burn me alive. My flaming body will be a torch to light my people on their path to freedom.
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There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.
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When people feel threatened by you, they find something that is belittling.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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All of us can expect to live longer than any organization that we would work for. That continues apace. Human longevity is increasing; corporate longevity is decreasing.
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In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.
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People are stupider than anybody.
