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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.
Tom Lehrer
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Tom Lehrer
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 9
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New York City
New York
Thomas Andrew Lehrer
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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.
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Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
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For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
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