#pub

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. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#because #exception #for the people #free #friends

According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. ↗

— Jay Leno

#bill #bill clinton #book #clinton #duh

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard. ↗

— David Letterman

#changing #democratic #doing #elite #guard

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies. ↗

— Carl Levin

#asked #back #been #believe #bush

Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#executive #george #george washington #president #privilege

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#deceiving #does #effect #executed #insincere

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#being #display #need #often #people

But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#course #definite #destined #external #greatly

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#armed men #authoritative #become #been #buried