Tom Lehrer Quotes
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
Tom Lehrer
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The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.
Augusto Pinochet
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Marcus Aurelius
I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it’s their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.
Kate Bush
Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.
David Harewood
There's times where you think, 'Gosh, what if nobody ever wants to hear what I have to say?'
Chelsea Handler
'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.
Joe Bastianich
My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
Clemantine Wamariya
I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.
Ricky Martin
I really believe that fashion, and dressing up, is a great way for guys to express and interact with their creativity.
Cam Newton
If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
Tom Lehrer
