Tom Lehrer Quotes

The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

Tom Lehrer

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• My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • True
  • More
  • Countryside

• The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Important
  • Relationship

• We all get self-centered.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Get
  • Self-centered

• Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• Are you in my dream too?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Dream
  • You
  • Too

• I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • VIolin
  • Liking

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Friends

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Long
  • Free

• As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Men

• The process of writing and creating and answering that very unique call inside yourself has nothing to do with agents and sales and all that stuff.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing
  • Unique
  • Sales

• People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • People
  • Tired

• I'm the last person that wants to give away music for free.

  

  Swizz Beatz
  • Music
  • Free
  • Give

• David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.

  

  Martin Short
  • Together
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or... I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know?

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Life
  • Why
  • Funny

• He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Army
  • Do this
  • Do that

• The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion... Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Funny
  • Military
  • Army