Tom Lehrer Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
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Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
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I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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People are loving me because they don't even know me. "You're Bob's son. We love you." So I think that's a good thing for a father to leave so much that people are loving their children. I'm proud of that.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
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I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.
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A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.
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You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.
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One day I know the struggle will change. There's got to be a change-not only for Mississippi, not only for the people in the United States, but people all over the world.
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And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
