Tom Lehrer Quotes
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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All my songs are where I am.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
