Tom Lehrer Quotes
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.Tom Lehrer
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
Earl Derr Biggers -
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
Orison Swett Marden -
I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
Tamara Mellon -
You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
Octavia Spencer -
Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
Ed Sheeran
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There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.
Natalie Dormer -
The majority of the economic oscillations which we encounter seem to be explained most plausibly as free oscillations.
Ragnar Frisch -
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.
E. F. Schumacher -
When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.
P. G. Wodehouse -
Candy on the 6-4, leather guts and fishbowlFifty on the pinky ring just to make my fist glow
T.I. -
These golden mattersOf Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.
Archilochus
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O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.
Jay Parini -
I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.
Jason Wu -
It's always hard to put your finger on what it is that makes Primus Primus.
Les Claypool -
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
Jared Diamond -
I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.
Anne-Marie
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
James Caan -
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
Jason Bateman -
Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.
Adam Frank -
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
Zac Brown Band -
If you asked me to write a rock song or a rap song, I couldn't do it because they're not in my fingers.
Tom Lehrer