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68 Quotes by Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer has 68 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the…
If I can't get people to commit themselves on whether or not there is a square root of two, then…
Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers.
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to…
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'
I wasn't really a performer by temperament,
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I…
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody…
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps…
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the…
In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it…

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More Advertising Quotes

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by… — Isaac Asimov
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it… — Alan Ball
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends… — Henry Adams
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. — Bruce Barton
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is… — Jean Baudrillard
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. — William Bernbach
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. — William Bernbach
Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. — William Bernbach
Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you… — William Bernbach

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