"I think that if people are having trouble communicating with one another, the least they can do is SHUT UP."

-- Tom Lehrer

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Shut Up Quotes

“After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.”
“The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.”
“One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.”
“For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”
“I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2".”
“If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song”
“It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.”
“I always talk about my ambition with music, and it's to sort of seduce people into listening to sounds they wouldn't normally listen to or want to hear.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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