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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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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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
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Oracle is halfway to Fusion. One year later, half the job is done and it's the toughest half.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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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.
