Fred Allen Quotes
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.Fred Allen
Quotes to Explore
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
Laura Dern -
I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
Natalia Kills -
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
Samantha Mumba -
Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
Kaki King -
Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
Tabitha Soren -
I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
Ice T
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There's nothing more American than movies.
Adam McKay -
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch -
Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
Fleur East -
The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
Samira Wiley -
People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
Zooey Deschanel
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
Patrice O'Neal -
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
S. J. Rozan -
The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
Jack Ma -
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
Eckhart Tolle -
I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
Harold S. Geneen -
I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
Randeep Hooda
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There is something about liberalism that is not nearly as true about conservatism. The further left one goes, the more one finds that the ideology provides moral cover for a life that is not moral. While many people left of center lead fine personal lives, many do not.
Dennis Prager -
Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.
Bev Perdue -
Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.
Billy Joel -
I've never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I'd like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.
Becky Sauerbrunn -
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
William Hazlitt -
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen