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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The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I have observed over the years that the unanticipated consequences of social action are always more important, and usually less agreeable, than the intended consequences.
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I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.
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I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.
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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.
