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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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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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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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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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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Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
