Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehreris an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. He is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and '60s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth9 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
nice moral manners
Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price.
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Irreverence is easy - whats hard is wit.
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I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
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I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
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Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.
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San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.
food
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
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I was immersed in popular songs of the time, of the '30s and '40s. I was writing songs, making fun of the attitudes of those songs, in the musical style of the songs themselves; love songs, folk songs, marches, football.
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It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
promoting revealing
I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
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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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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 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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Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff.