Tom Lehrer Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I'm a typical California boy.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the most miserable I've ever been. When those things collided, I realised something was off. That's when I started poking around to figure out what was wrong.
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I'm very honest - brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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The destruction of the atom the split of it, in modern physics seemed to me to be the same as the destruction of the world.. ..science to me appeared to be dead: its most important basis was only a lunacy, a mistake perpetrated by learned men.. ..who blindly mistook one object for another.
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When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk on the table: it attracts the dead.
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
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I like to enjoy the game and to have fun and express myself as much as I can.
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A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
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Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.
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Laughter kills lonesome. It's one of the great things in our lives.
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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
