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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He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
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The Lord is well aware of our mortality. He knows our weaknesses. He understands the challenges of our everyday lives. He has great empathy for the temptations of earthly appetites and passions.
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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
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I don't live for my work. My life is my life. That's more important, and I think that helps my work.
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The generation gaps are becoming more and more extreme. It used to be a generation gap would be 20-plus years. Now, because technology and specifically communication technology is changing so rapidly, you have generation gaps that are like five years, ten years.
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I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
