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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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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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.
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When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.
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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.
