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.
Jack Nicklaus -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. Benson -
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.
Tavi Gevinson -
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Randolph Scott
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
Carlo Rubbia -
All my songs are where I am.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
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.
Ed Gillespie -
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl Shapiro -
One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
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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.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I can never really enjoy being famous.
Utada Hikaru -
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.
Adam Christopher -
I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
Vijay Sethupathi -
We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
Karen Maitland -
I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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I feel so great on a plane that it could be the end of everything, and I don't care.
Karine Vanasse -
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David -
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
A. S. Byatt -
I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films.
Edgar Wright -
Whatever you believe, you become.
Michael Jackson -
Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
Tom Lehrer