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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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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.
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As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
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I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.
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I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the spheres. Then every soul became a musical note, and all life became music. Inspired by it I spoke to the people, and those who were attracted by my words listened to them instead of listening to my songs.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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If I were white, I could capture the world.
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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.
