Tom Lehrer Quotes
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
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In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.
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I never want to be too mean with my songs, but with 'I Hope It Rains' it was definitely somewhere in the middle with being sassy but also a little class in there as well. It was a good blend for me and who I want to be perceived as an artist.
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I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.
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How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.
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There's always this message I want to give kids: Everybody has a dream, but it's often very vague. We owe it to ourselves to identify it and not be afraid of it. Even if it's crazy and unachievable. The importance of finding your dreams doesn't lie in the fact that it gives you a target that you have to achieve, but it gives you a direction. When you set it into motion, things happen. That's the message I want to give my kids. If your dream isn't scary, it's not big enough. Sure, use your head, get a job. But don't lose sight of wonder.
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Reflected from a diamond shape of tiny white sharkâs teeth.
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Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.
