Tom Lehrer Quotes
I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I will run against anybody.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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If you pay your credit card off every month, get a rewards card. One that gives you airline miles or that will give you 1 percent cash back at least on every purchase.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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I'm a rather decisive type.
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Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others’ expense.
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A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
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There are some artists that don't like working with other females, which is fine. They have their own thing. I personally love being surrounded by other females.
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Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
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As a father and an ex-wrestler, it's a dream come true. To be able to come back and be included in 'WWE 2K17,' it's a huge honor.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.
