Tom Lehrer Quotes
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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My next baby will be my new record.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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I've done songs in other languages. I know how hard it is.
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I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.
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I firmly ascribe to the concept that music is 100 percent subjective. If you’re hearing music and it sounds good and beautiful to you, then that makes it beautiful. It’s all within the listener. It’s not important for other people to tell you how they react.
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I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
