Tom Lehrer Quotes
Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
Quotes to Explore
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
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I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.
Nastassja Kinski -
I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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The fact that millions of people use the term 'morality' as a synonym for religious dogmatism, racism, sexism, or other failures of insight and compassion should not oblige us to merely accept their terminology until the end of time.
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I took a cabbie to taxi court once. Years ago, this guy didn't want to take me to Brooklyn. Just refused. I explained that I would absolutely take him to Taxi Court because, see, I'm an actor and have pretty much nothing but free time.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing deadlines to trample him flat. Broadcasting the contents of empty minds is what most of us do most of the time, and nobody more relentlessly than I.
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
