Tom Lehrer Quotes
To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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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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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be at all the parties and all the events, and I was pretty hard to miss. I was one of the few Spanish cats sitting there with jewelry on, Dapper Dan suits. It was pretty hard to miss me.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
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If a female is good-looking, it totally decreases her credibility. Now she's not a good athlete - she's only good in these track meets because she's good-looking.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
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An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.
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I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.
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The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hiphop. You show people that you're hiphop by what you wear.
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To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making points that they don't ... I'd rather be funny myself, and I'd rather listen to somebody with a little sense of humor.
