Tom Lehrer Quotes

There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

Tom Lehrer

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• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Think
  • Like
  • Bike

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Opinion
  • Cancer
  • Accept

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Day
  • Cry
  • Conscious

• I think abortion is murder.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Abortion

• I think we spent 60-something million on 'Hateful Eight,' which is actually more than I wanted to spend, but we had weather problems. And I wanted to make it good.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Problems
  • Weather

• 'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Different
  • Why
  • Drama

• Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • House

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• 'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Why
  • Light
  • Stop

• The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Mad

• I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Time
  • Style
  • Design

• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Question

• Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

  

  Mayim Bialik

• The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Sun
  • Rise
  • Sets

• I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Country
  • Black
  • Dark

• What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Working
  • Deal

• My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.

  

  Peter Gallagher Tufts Beelzebubs
  • People
  • Profound

• There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Animal
  • Games
  • Rooms