Tom Lehrer Quotes
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.
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If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.
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What do I say to them in the dressing-room? Nothing really. Most of the time I don't even know what they are going to do myself.
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If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
