Tom Lehrer Quotes

Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

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• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Present
  • Old

• I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Political
  • Myself

• It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Destiny
  • Crushed
  • Mint

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• Obviously, my label would want me to be on the radio all the time, but that's not my personal goal.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time

• It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • People
  • Job

• All mothers go through the exact same things.

  

  Angie Harmon

• 'Teenage Dream' was the most difficult song I've ever been a part of. We wrote five different versions of it. We couldn't get the lyrics right. Max Martin and Dr. Luke wrote most of the melody, and then Katy Perry and I were responsible for getting the lyrics right.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Different
  • Dream
  • Song

• I can't think about whether I'll disappoint Sonic Youth fans. It's not like I want people to be disappointed, but I just can't control that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Control

• We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Done
  • Progress
  • Option

• What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • World
  • Courage

• I think I just had it by osmosis: an appreciation of Duke Ellington before I really even knew who he was.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Appreciation

• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  

  James Russell Lowell

• I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • City

• It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Important

• For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Mother

• You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Long
  • Exercise
  • Week

• I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

  

  Lin Shaye

• Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Wisdom
  • Voice
  • Intuition

• I leaned too early. I was running, I looked across, I realised I was going to win - the thought I was on for a world record entered my mind - I reached for the line when I should have stayed straight.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Action
  • Spirit
  • Pride

• Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Missing
  • Fingers