Fred Allen Quotes

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

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• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
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• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
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• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
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• Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
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• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Universe
  • Old
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• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Back
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• I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Kids
  • Beach
  • Away

• I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

  

  Fat Joe
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• I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Up
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• I've been writing songs since I was, like, five and I've been singing since, like, I can't remember.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Singing

• We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Die

• If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
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• All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
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• The '60s was a magical time in the music business. So much creativity and talent. I think a lot of it came from the fact that we had grown up before rock n' roll. We listened to all the great songwriters and big bands, songs with great lyrics and melodies. I think that really influenced everybody.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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• I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • People
  • Inspiration
  • Town

• I let people down easy with inspiration.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Inspiration

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Age
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  • Fighting

• I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
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  • Shadow
  • Uncle

• I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Remember

• My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Uncle