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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Tom Lehrer

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Tom Lehrer
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 9
Lyricist
Mathematician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
University Teacher
New York City
New York
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I wasn't really a performer by temperament.
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Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
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Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.
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Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.
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So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV
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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
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Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy.
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