Tom Lehrer Quotes

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
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• I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
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• Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.

  

  Madhur Mittal
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• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
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• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
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• I never say no to an ice cream.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• There's no alternative to Catalan independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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• I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• I like black because it is a vacant space.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
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• Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.

  

  Marshall Curry
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• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

  

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