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

• There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

  

  Frank Knight
  • True

• I still have no desire to own an Apple Watch, or even any desire to go to the Apple store and look at one or hold one in my hand. ... The only question, it seems to me, is this: At what point can Apple Watch be declared a swing and a miss?

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Desire
  • Question
  • Hand

• The only way I survived at school was by doing impersonations of teachers and pupils. That led to me winning a talent competition when I was 16; the prize was three or four gigs in working men's clubs. I was just showing off: at the time, I thought that's what acting was.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Time
  • Men
  • School

• I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Friend
  • Blood
  • Clever

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

  

  Fred Allen