Tom Lehrer Quotes

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Tom Lehrer

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It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

Jessie James Decker

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Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

Jerry Cantrell

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When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

Jenny Lewis

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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

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My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Maya Angelou

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When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

Robert Pinsky

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A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn one melody for a three-minute thing, and nothing ever repeats. I like that.

Jeff Buckley

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When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

John Rhys-Davies

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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

Stephan Pastis

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I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.

Jay Parini

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An incredible number of people have raised children who aren't too screwed up. Surely, I won't be the worst at it.

Jason Isbell

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Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

Dennis Kucinich

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