Tom Lehrer Quotes
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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.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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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.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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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.
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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.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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Le Pen is old; I'm young.
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.
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Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!
