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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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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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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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.
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I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
