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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• 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 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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• 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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• The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

  

  Van Jones
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• Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

  

  Donald Johanson
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• It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.

  

  CeeLo Green
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• A flower blossoms for its own joy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
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• The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.

  

  Neil Sedaka
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• If you tell me there's something I can't do, I'll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

  

  Jean Harlow
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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.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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