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.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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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.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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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.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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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.'
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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.
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
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'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh.
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Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high.
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I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.
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It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
