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Tom Lehrer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 9, 1928

Topics

Life You Play Out Piano Get

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Robert Kiyosaki

Lie People Blame Obesity Same Genes

Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Life Life Is Too Short Wine Short

I wouldn't like to meet Daniel Craig on a dark night if I'd said anything bad about him.

Night Bad Dark Said Meet Anything

I'm a ham who wants to be a small part of anything.

Small Anything Who Ham Wants Part

Normal people - i.e., people who aren't actors - are the most bizarre people you can ever come across. I'll talk to someone and come away thinking, 'They are clinically insane.'

People Thinking Someone You Talk

I wrote my first screenplay on a lark, because it was a storytelling format that felt like a familiar shorthand - we all watch movies, don't we? But even though I grew up in Los Angeles, my family was entirely unconnected with the movie industry, and I never truly believed that it would one day be my fate.

Family Day Fate Los Angeles Movies

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

People Me Hair Short Short Hair

After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.

Wife Fun Acting Dressed First Meal

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.

Beautiful Fire People Black Result

Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Change Women Past Picture Traffic

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.

Mother Day Wish Wonder Now Kind

There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.

Think You Say Want Will Radio

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