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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I can't imagine trying to operate a company banking on the fact that my logo is cooler than somebody else's logo.
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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.
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I know, I know the world wants love. I know that the fans want love on the air. Of course they do. They want love on the air as they want love in pictures, in the theatre, in novels and poems. And I want to give them love on the air - but not cheap love, not a low - class type of love.
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A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
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The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
