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 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 -
Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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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 -
As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
Maggie Siff
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Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.
Karl Marx -
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 -
I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.
Betty White -
Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
Dolph Lundgren -
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
Anatoli Boukreev -
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.
H. G. Wells -
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