Tom Lehrer Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
