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My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was

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 thats just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun. – Tom Lehrer

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Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize. – Tom Lehrer

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It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years. – Tom Lehrer

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It’s not how many friends you can count, it’s how many of those you can count on. – Anthony Liccione

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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. – Joseph Roux

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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. – Benjamin Franklin

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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. – Eamon de Valera

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It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers. – Gloria Allred

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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicines a business today. Its a business. – Jack Kevorkian

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Here is the piece. If you cant say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. – Ernest Hemingway

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I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read Just Kids and its an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies. – James Iha

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