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Tom Lehrer Quotes

«Bad weather always looks worse through a window.»
«If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.»
«It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.»
«Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.»
Author: Tom Lehrer (Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: sewer, sewers
«Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers»
«Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?»
«If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it»
«An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.»
Author: Tom Lehrer (Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Talent | Keywords: actress, ego
«When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.»
Author: Tom Lehrer (Mathematician, Singer, Song Writer) | About: Food, Sex | Keywords: fifty-two
«Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then»

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