Tom Lehrer Quotes

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Tom Lehrer

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• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

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• I no longer limit myself.

  

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• I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.

  

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• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
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• I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.

  

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• I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.

  

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• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.

  

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• Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.

  

  Victor Cherbuliez
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• ...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of 'an abundance or surplus' arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.

  

  Benjamin Graham
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• I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.

  

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• I think there are some players born to play ball.

  

  Joe DiMaggio

• The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the startups, the country of artisans and quality, and the country of the big companies.

  

  Matteo Renzi
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• Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament text, namely that the wide-ranging variations in the tradition showed that Christian faith could not be based solely on scripture (the Protestant Reformation doctrine of sola scriptura), since the text was unstable and unreliable. Instead, according to this view, the Catholics must be right that faith required the apostolic tradition preserved in the (Catholic) church.

  

  Bart Ehrman
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• After Notre Dame, what is there?

  

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• I'm going to make sure that I'm healthy before I come back. It's important for me to be right before I step back on the court, especially going into the post-season. I don't want to risk coming back too early and injuring it again. It wouldn't be worth it.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Important
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• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Courage

• Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Hate
  • Catholic
  • Jew