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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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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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 first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.
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Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.
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What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.
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Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
