Fred Allen Quotes
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.
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Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.
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There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed to all different backgrounds, cultures, and religions, fueling my personal interests in global issues.
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You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
