Tom Lehrer Quotes

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

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• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • People
  • Done
  • Happy

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Different
  • Real
  • Meaning

• In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

  Gail Devers
  • Broken
  • Feet
  • February

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.

  

  Majandra Delfino
  • Up
  • Care
  • Enough

• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Think

• When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Smiling

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Sea

• Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Violence
  • Destiny

• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Nature

• It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Different
  • Career
  • Voice

• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  

  Tom Lehrer
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