Tom Lehrer Quotes

They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Kids
  • Lifetime
  • Suffer

• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • Spiritual
  • Dangerous

• I don't want to die an old lady.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Want
  • Die
  • Old

• I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Control
  • Chocolate
  • Pizza

• The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Attention
  • Should
  • Hold

• You are not your cluster of memorized ideas about yourself. Awareness of this dissolves both the cluster and the belief that others can control you. If you have a self-image of being a desirable person, others can control you by flattering it, but can they control if you have no such image?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Control

• As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?

  

  Origen
  • Thoughts

• There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say 'I told you so'. Mavis was not of their number.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Advice

• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America … you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul … This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Earth
  • Water

• Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Summer
  • Driving

• People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • People
  • Life
  • Soul

• Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

  

  Deepak Chopra

• My LinkedIn page looks crazy.

  

  Lenny Platt
  • Crazy

• A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Remember
  • Funny

• A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now.

  

  Kenneth More

• The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Future
  • President
  • Decisions

• I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my wall, which does make life a lot easier for me. When we were at 60,000 or 100,000 'likes,' I was still having to source the content myself, and I was constantly trolling the Internet, whereas now things are sent to me, which does make it a lot easier.

  

  Elise Andrew
  • People
  • Life
  • Cool

• I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thought
  • Riding
  • Bicycle

• They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.

  

  Tom Lehrer