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Tom Lehrer Quotes

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Tom Lehrer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Mathematics Together Harmony

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Joe Shuster

Art Free Picture Back Calendar Out

From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Man Government Moon Research Apple

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

Steven Berkoff

Too Much More Elegant Whatever Would

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Business Music Walk Free Trying Go

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let a reader dwell in the pangs of realization that we sometimes try to protect our children from.

Tracy K. Smith

Children Parents Gift Sometimes Try

My father was a public figure all my life, and so the presidency was an extension of that. I guess you get used to it, though you can stand back occasionally and think, 'Boy, this is really weird!'

Ron Reagan

Life Father Think Stand Weird You

I don't have anything to prove to anybody else other than myself and my supporters and my loved ones, so if my health is good, I'm going to go out there and kill it.

Roman Reigns

Good Health Myself Loved Go Prove

I don't know how to not be outside since I was a little kid.

Michael Keaton

Know Outside Kid Little How Since

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

Loretta Young

Silence Way My Own Out Little Own

I think it's healthy to have a lot of different styles within a genre. It makes it much more interesting.

Little Louie Vega

Think Interesting Healthy More Much

I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.

Christopher Lee

Opinion Bond Think Up Screen Ever

I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.

Toby Young

Over Miss Being Chefs