Fred Allen Quotes

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Fred Allen

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• Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Need
  • Youth

• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Customers
  • Competitive
  • CEO

• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Myself
  • Dance
  • Fitness

• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Doors

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Darkness
  • Go
  • Turn

• Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.

  

  LaToya London
  • Time
  • Camera
  • Quiet

• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Development
  • Economic
  • Islam

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Important
  • Right
  • Security

• Whenever I'm out and I hear something, I'm writing. It's the process of writing it down and then just always creating wherever you go. I never stop creating.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Process

• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Yourself
  • Communication

• It may be in our sexuality that we are most easily enslaved, both men and women. It may be there, even as free men and women, that we find freedom hardest to keep. The politics of the flesh are the roots of power.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

  

  Donna Leon

• It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Faith
  • Action
  • Jesus

• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Question

• I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Good

• The theater is often seen as comical in the movies; to me, it's not comical - it's my life. I don't mean that it can't be comical, but it's not only comical.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Life

• To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Life
  • Knowledge

• For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

  

  Jessica Raine
  • Pretty

• When I beat Sonny Liston, I shocked the world. When I joined the Muslims, I shocked the world. When I beat George Forman, I shocked the world. I am from the House of Shock.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Muslims
  • Shocked

• For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

  

  Fred Allen