Tom Lehrer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
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I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
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We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.
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Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process.
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The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
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I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
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Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
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Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.
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If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
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And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
