Tom Lehrer Quotes
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
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When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.
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I would say my legs would be my strength. I think I have the perfect legs.
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People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.
