A Quote by Tom Lehrer

I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.

Tom Lehrer

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Anything Been Believe Dead Hand Heard Just Misquoted Now Off Picked Read Remark Somebody Therefore Up

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Tom Lehrer
American - Musician
Born: April 9, 1928

If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.

Fei-Fei Li

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Louis Menand

When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.

John Shelby Spong

The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.

John Shelby Spong

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

Robert M. Gates

When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of a federal Department of Education. In one case, Carter quoted [Tomas] Jefferson's and [George] Washington's appreciation of education and then, in a leap, implied that they would be delighted that he was creating a giant federal bureaucracy for education.

Paul Kengor

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

Leslie Charteris

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

Ambrose Bierce

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

Stanley Kubrick

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

Robert Fisk

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

Jason Calacanis

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.