Tom Lehrer Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
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There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music.
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When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.
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Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.
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The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.
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I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.
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Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.
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At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
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Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
