Tom Lehrer Quotes

Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Winter
  • Oil
  • Juice

• 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.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Forever
  • Appreciate
  • Shopping

• 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.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • You
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Like
  • For Her
  • Certain

• My real heroes have always been sportswriters.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Real
  • Always
  • Heroes

• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Memories

• The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Great
  • Job
  • Me

• The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Powerful
  • Atheist
  • Market

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• 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
  • People
  • Mysterious

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Religious

• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Men
  • Understanding

• ... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • History

• I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Week

• It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Energy
  • Band

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Mind
  • Glad
  • Beholder