Tom Lehrer Quotes
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country.
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I wish to spend my life's twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.
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When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
