Fred Allen Quotes
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.
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The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.
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People asked me why I quit and it was because the imagery I was using became pervasive. That’s not why I did them. I did it because that was the way the world was going. Part of the American way of painting was industrial. I never was comfortable with illustration; I was interested in the way paintings were made.
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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
