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.Tom Lehrer
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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.
Manmohan Singh -
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino -
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah -
I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
Larry Flynt -
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.
Garth Brooks -
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
W. H. Auden
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Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser -
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
Dan Rather -
I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
Gary Glitter -
I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
Ziggy Marley -
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.
Navid Negahban -
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.
Fat Joe
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Maggie Siff -
Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
Karl Marx -
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.
Dan Simmons -
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...
Agatha Christie -
His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
Algernon Charles Swinburne -
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.
Ellen Willis
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Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
'Ugly Betty' has been the most important thing I've ever done, easily. I was able to do more with one character than I can ever imagine doing again - Hilda was hilariously funny and emotionally deep... I really got to showcase what I could do with a character.
Ana Ortiz -
Love is not consolation. It is light.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
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.
Tom Lehrer