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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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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This word 'imminent' keeps coming up. The President never said that there was an imminent threat.
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What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.
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I never sought to play monsters in films.
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But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
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The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
