Tom Lehrer Quotes
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on.
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I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
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I like to think I'm un-categorisable.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his key. And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.
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In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
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Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.
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Don’t make your story too big. I don’t want you big-noting me.
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is they'll listen to you just so you'll have to listen to them.
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I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
