Fred Allen Quotes
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
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I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
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We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done.
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It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.
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The location was very difficult to get to. I recall rock-climbing a good deal of the way in that long skirt, and I felt terrible for the crew members who had to haul the heavy equipment. For some reason, they couldn't get there by helicopter.
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I loved music, acting, and drama, but these weren't something I pursued until I was 19.
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When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.
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Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.
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I don't know if those things work, where you do, like, this crash diet or crash starvation. It's just not something I've ever been into.
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I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
