Tom Lehrer Quotes
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The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.
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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.
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It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
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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.
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You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face.
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The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.
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At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.
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Hey, he speaks pretty well for a guy who just ate 2 lbs of crackers.
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
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Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.
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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
