Fred Allen Quotes

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

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• Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • End

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Like
  • Beethoven
  • Wagner

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Really
  • Chocolate
  • Cookies

• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Money

• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Women
  • Career
  • Loved

• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

  

  S. Ansky
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Movies
  • Sing
  • Possibly

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Man
  • Suffering

• When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I played with. I still had to call out plays, notice schemes, know the systems, do everything they had to do.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Important
  • Know
  • Smart

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Different
  • Like

• I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Oil

• The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Love
  • Church
  • Philosophy

• I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Why
  • Period

• It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Life

• One of the rules of caution is not to be too cautious.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Caution
  • Cautious

• The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

  

  Fred Allen