Marty Allen Quotes
The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.
Marty Allen
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
Jack Irons
Pearl Jam
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Dan Ariely
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
Gabrielle Aplin
New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
Victoria Justice
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
N. K. Jemisin
Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
Gary Gygax
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Laila Ali
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.
Imelda Marcos
I would love to be able to play anywhere, but to me the sweet spot is clubs and theaters, just because I feel like you lean in to tell a joke. You don't back up. Comedy lives in that area. I've played amphitheaters, big clubs, and pool halls, and the most fun rooms hold anywhere from 500 to 2,000 people. That intimacy is where comedy really lives.
Michael Che
Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
Edward C. Prescott
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker
The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.
Marty Allen
