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.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Possibilities
  • Data

• 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.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• 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.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Pride

• Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Man
  • Pain
  • Others

• You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Live
  • Know
  • Afraid

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• 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.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Friends
  • Change
  • Blessed

• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Changed
  • Lot
  • Survivor

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Involved
  • Often
  • Campaigns

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Age
  • Career
  • Science

• 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.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • World
  • Focus
  • Organization

• Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • War
  • Choice
  • Rich

• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Boy
  • Head
  • Group

• I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

  

  Iman
  • Believe
  • Vanity
  • Glamour

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Character
  • History
  • Stage

• All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Men
  • Different
  • Fields

• Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Answer

• Of course, I'm no dummy.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson

• A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

  

  Fred Allen