Tom Lehrer Quotes
Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!
Tom Lehrer
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina
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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
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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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
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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
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
Queen Victoria
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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
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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
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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