Tom Lehrer Quotes

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

Tom Lehrer

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All of WhatsApp's growth has come from happy customers encouraging their friends to try the service.

Jim Goetz

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I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

Jim Ryun

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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

Jeffrey Tate

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Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

Andrew Benintendi

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Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

John Kessel

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The Internet makes writing about restaurants easier and more interesting in quite a few ways, one of the main ones being to do with the mundane business of checking what's on the menu.

John Lanchester

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I'm sick of environmentalism.

Tracey Ullman

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In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.

Robert Bork

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The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Molly Crabapple

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I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

Luke Harding

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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

Jonathan Shapiro

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People have to free their imaginations and realize everyone can do something, on a large or a small scale, depending on their ability. Those who can do a lot because of their position and potential should jump right in there.

Douglas Tompkins

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