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 really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is a wonderful mind to work with, so I'd like to do a big picture with an unknown director.
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Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
