Tom Lehrer Quotes
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since thenTom Lehrer
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
Yahya Jammeh -
I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music, spirituals. I would sing for people and pass the hat when I was 4.
Florence Henderson -
I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
Oscar Isaac -
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
Ed Wynn -
We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
LaToya London -
'They follow the creed of the Bright: that which disturbs the order of society must be eliminated, regardless of whether it caused the disturbance.' She rolled her eyes. 'You’d think they’d get tired of parroting Itempas and start thinking for themselves after two thousand years.'
N. K. Jemisin
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
Alan Jackson -
The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
Amy Sherman-Palladino -
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
Oprah Winfrey -
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.
Uwe Reinhardt -
When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a poet writer did everything all at once. I would write poetry, and while writing poetry I would also write work in the world - if I could get into the world.
W. S. Di Piero -
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
Joanne Rowling
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When you fight for the impossible, sometimes you lose everything.
Ehud Olmert -
The stiletto is the icon of erotic femininity. You're taller, thinner and curvier, all at the same time. What's not to like?
Valerie Fahnestock Steele -
During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering can cause the living water to well up in a human heart.
Sadhu Sundar Singh -
If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.
Albert Einstein -
There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.
Nick Sagan -
I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.
Renee Zellweger
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When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
Dean Frazer -
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams -
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then
Tom Lehrer