Tom Lehrer Quotes
Counting in octal is just likst counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
Tom Lehrer
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
Vin Scully
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Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.
Muhammad Ali
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I've been hearing-impaired, not quite since birth, but I've been wearing hearing aids since I was 13, so I'm very conscious of the difficulty of voice communication.
Vint Cerf
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
William Shakespeare
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The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
William E. Simon
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus
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'Serial Mom' tested really well when we finally got with the right audience. But they would go to some shopping mall in a deep, deep suburban L.A. neighborhood where they knew people would hate, and they just wanted to spend money to prove that people wouldn't like it. The movie was not a success when it came out.
John Waters
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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
Dalai Lama
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I think people of lesser talent will become stars.
Howard Stern
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Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
Albert Einstein
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You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."
Richard Feynman
