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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

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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
Thomas Andrew Lehrer
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Plagiarize! Plagiarize, Let no one else's work evade your eyes, Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, So don't shade your eyes, But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize... Only be sure always to call it please research.
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You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
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I would do nightclubs and concerts - particularly concerts, which is mostly what I did - and only people who already agreed with me would show up. People weren't going to come and inadvertently turn on their television set and find this offensive stuff coming out.
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Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
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When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!
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The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.
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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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When correctly viewed, everything is lewd.
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Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!
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Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!
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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.
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In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize only be sure always to call it . . . research.
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Be it ever so decadent, there's no place like home.
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Alas, irreverence has been subsumed by mere grossness, at least in the so-called mass media. What we have now - to quote myself at my most pretentious - is a nimiety of scurrility with a concomitant exiguity of taste.
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They love us everywhere we go. So when in doubt, send the Marines.
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We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
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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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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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I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.
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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
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