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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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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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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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.
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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.
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I personally like to do independent films.
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1 + 1 = 1
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer Shapiro.' Shapiro does original research, earning his 1,067-page volume a place on the quotation shelf next to Bartlett's and Oxford's.
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It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
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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.
