Fred Allen Quotes

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

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• You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Democracy
  • Ignore
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Literature
  • Missing
  • Japanese

• I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• 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.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Some
  • Allah
  • Debates

• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Success
  • Growing
  • Yourself

• This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

  

  Pat Boone
  • School
  • May
  • High

• Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Wisdom
  • Unique
  • Sharing

• I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • Slavery
  • Clay

• 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.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Work
  • Business
  • Small

• My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Father
  • Lot
  • French

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Better
  • Lose

• On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Know
  • Day
  • Week

• That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Time
  • True
  • Leaving

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

  

  Fred Allen