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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It's so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you're worthy of their time and energy and ears.
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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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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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If I am young, then you should look not to age but to deeds.
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There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.
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People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
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Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
