Tom Lehrer Quotes

• We’ll all go together when we go, Every Hottentot and every Eskimo, When the air becomes uranious, We’ll all go simultaneous, Yes, we’ll all go together when we go.

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• In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize…only be sure always to call it please ‘research’.

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• Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

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• My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that’s just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

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• You can’t be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

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• When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than s*x.

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• Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

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• It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

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• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

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• Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

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• I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

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• Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don’t use your.

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• I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

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• An actress must never lose her ego – without it she has no talent.

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• I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

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• If a person feels he can’t communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.

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• 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 ability.

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  Tags in Conclusion, American, Ground, Army

• Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

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  Tags in Play, Like

• Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?

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• Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there’s no one watching you.

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  Tags in Prepared, Deed, Good

Tom Lehrer (22)

Birth:	9th April, 1928
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Mathematician, Pianist, Satirist, Singer

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