Tom Lehrer Quotes
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
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The thing for me is to always tell the truth. Not to preach, but to tell the truth.
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I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.
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I find if my character is more glamorous, I become more conscious of what I look like.
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I think each film should be regarded as its own specific text.
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Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
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Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.
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We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
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The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.
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Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
