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Tom Lehrer Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Thumbs Counting Just Like Your

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Weapons Away Going Get North

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

Peace World Create Possible Middle

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Time Breakfast Restaurant Renaissance

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Family City You Wall Student Glass

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Robertson Davies

Imagination Me Ideas Get

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion.

Love Mother Great Me Growing Up

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

Lisa Marie Presley

I Am People Think Know Nothing More

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Talent Write Open Must Like While

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Daily Morning Design Artist Single

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.

Responsibility Eating You Down Stop

Quick. Name ten dead redheads.

Douglas Coupland

Name Dead Quick Ten Redheads

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

Women Future Value Key Project Core

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