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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

~Tom Lehrer

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Be prepared, and be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

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I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

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You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

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On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

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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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The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

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I loved high school, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 9th, 1928

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