Fred Allen Quotes
A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen
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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.
Nash Grier
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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.
Barbra Streisand
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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!
Oliver Reed
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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.
E. F. Benson
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
Kate Bosworth
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
Natalie Wood
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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.
Fiona Shaw
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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.
Nazanin Boniadi
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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.
J. C. Watts
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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.
Abraham Flexner
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Jack LaLanne
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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.
Zac Goldsmith
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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.
Hamza Yusuf
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I guess I've got a smart wife.
Yogi Berra
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I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
Salma Hayek
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
Carl von Clausewitz