#is

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#combat #experience #fewer #increasingly #journalists

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#dennis miller #i #jon #jon stewart #like

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#bush #figure #george #george bush #george w

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#also #american #army #carried #color

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#came #cooperative #diva #donna #elvis

Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#country #country boy #couple #define #elvis

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#berlin #blues #greatest #him #his

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coasters #humor #stories #things #those

Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#bit #charles #going #good #hear

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#emotion #energy #i #i wish #land