"I don't have the temperament of a performer,……" — Tom Lehrer

"I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night."

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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 Every Night Quotes

This quote is filed under Every Night Quotes, one of 763 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I do Skid Row every night. — Sebastian Bach
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. — Brigitte Bardot
I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every… — Ellen Barkin
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids. — Roseanne Barr
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go… — Elayne Boosler
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full… — Hal Borland
Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night. — Luke Bryan
My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try… — Luke Bryan
When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do… — Luke Bryan
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night… — Alexis Carrel
When I'm singing 'Deanna,' for example, which I sing pretty much every night, it brings forward a kind of imagined,… — Nick Cave
Without question, I wake every night five times. — George Clooney

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