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Tom Lehrer Quotes

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Crazy Think Doing You Stop

I purposefully isolate myself from anything that has to do with any press. I don't read any press about myself.

Jesse Eisenberg

Myself Anything Press Read About

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

People Think American Want Talk Get

I'm a dog person; I've had dogs all my life.

Life Dog My Life Person Dogs Had

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

Failure Future Mistake Succeed You

I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

Go Kind Let Go Used Relaxed Once

Look at my skin - I am not of the white people.

Roberto Clemente

I Am People Look White Skin Am

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

Me Song Feelings Write Something

I think people should be able to do what they want to do.

People Think Want Able I Think

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Life Want My Own Own Passenger

Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

Douglas Coupland

People Brain Fashion Stylish Person

I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.

Love Like Traveling I Love Perform

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Reality Straightforward Accessible

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