American - Musician | April 9, 1928 - 2
The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.
Tom Lehrer
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When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'
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I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
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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.
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I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
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If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
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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.
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I thought about majoring in Math, Chemistry and English, but Math had the fewest requirements, so I went with it. I knew I wanted to teach, and Math was my field, so I studied Math.
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I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.
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The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.
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