Tom Lehrer Quotes

You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

Tom Lehrer

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• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Man
  • Successful
  • Intelligent

• For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • God
  • Miracles

• What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded by crumpled paper, the computerized writer has his mistakes neatly stored in digital memory.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Mistakes
  • Memory

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Same

• I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • True
  • Career
  • Brain

• I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Want
  • Path

• There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Saying
  • Means

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

• In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it - but men were different. A man like B - like Alfie, too - never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Wall

• Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!

  

  Dele Alli
  • Control
  • Worry

• I did a lot of fun things before I had kids - I traveled a lot. Now, I just really love being with my kids.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I never get tired of that song. I can do it 50 times a day, and still have fun with it.

  

  Charles Alfred Leavell The Allman Brothers Band
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Tired

• You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Fun
  • Evil
  • Stupid