Tom Lehrer Quotes

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

Tom Lehrer

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Home
  • Like
  • Second

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Together
  • Game

• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  

  Ice T
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Words

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Meeting
  • Africa

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Home
  • Want
  • Independent

• The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fair
  • Valley

• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • You
  • Kind
  • Always

• Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Thought

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There'.

  

  Omar Khayyam

• Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Science
  • Black
  • Energy

• When I was growing up, I was watching Steffi... she taught me, actually, that I'm on a good way and try to believe in myself.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Trying
  • She

• Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • God
  • Trying

• If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

  

  Dwight Gooden
  • Winning

• I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Think
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Butterflies
  • Fairytales
  • Zebras

• Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Trying
  • Hands
  • Steps