Fred Allen Quotes
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
