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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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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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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I have many sources of inspiration. I'd have to point to Dr. Martin Luther King, first and foremost. But my parents were good, hardworking folks who kept us in the church and the public schools, and out of trouble, for the most part.
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Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.
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I'd come out to Los Angeles for a vacation to see a friend and just fell in love with it.
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The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life.
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I fall asleep to a movie every night! I don't have a go-to movie, but I like Netflix or whatever I can find. Usually, it's just noise in the background; I think it's damage from living in New York, where it's so noisy.
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I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night.
