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.Tom Lehrer
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
Oscar Isaac -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Aphra Behn -
You go through slumps in this game, and you just have to work through them. You're going to miss putts out on an LPGA tour and have bad rounds. You just have to think to yourself that you always have tomorrow, and you're lucky enough to be out here just playing golf for a living.
Lexi Thompson -
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
Bill Hader
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The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
Deborah Eisenberg -
Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.
Jo Nesbo -
The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.
Serj Tankian System Of A Down -
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
Jerry Springer -
The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
Preet Bharara -
Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'
Jean Craighead George
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
Kate Micucci -
It's funny when you start writing an album and then recording - the songs begin to take on a spirit of their own. Once you start to perform it live, this happens even more so than in the studio. They really start to develop a personality that takes shape over time with the audience.
Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant -
We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
Chelsea Clinton -
Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
Carol Bartz -
We do see in the next few years more opportunities coming again for our company that we've not seen for the last two to three years.
Steve Clark Def Leppard -
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