Tom Lehrer Quotes

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

Tom Lehrer

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• There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fate
  • Thing
  • Accident

• I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Justice
  • Internet

• I do tend to overdo everything.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Everything
  • Tend
  • Overdo

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Inspiration
  • Key

• Just because you have a hit doesn't mean you're good [at music]. Just means you got a hit.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Music
  • Hit

• We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Progress
  • Issues

• It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Important

• Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

  

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Attention
  • Criticism
  • Craft

• A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Book
  • Open
  • Breeze

• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

  

  Sophocles
  • Good
  • Glory
  • Souls

• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Existence
  • Praise

• Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

  

  William Penn
  • Humility
  • Shining

• I think there's a lot of benefit in letting people vent. When I was on the Manchester Evening News, we got 500 letters a day, and part of my job as editor was to edit them. And I thought that was one of the best things in the newspaper, and it was instituted by an editor known as Big Tom, who said 'this is the voice of the people.' And he was quite right.

  

  Harold Evans
  • People
  • Benefit
  • Vent

• I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Enough
  • Tired
  • Intelligent

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

  

  Noga Alon
  • Way
  • Define
  • Explicit

• I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Profession
  • Mathematician
  • Explicit