Fred Allen Quotes
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
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Why doesn't constant trampling defeat the dandelion? The key to its strength is its long and sturdy root, which extends deep into the earth. The same priciple applies to people. The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sent the roots of their being to such a depth that nothing can shake them.
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That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
