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
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• 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
  • War
  • Government

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

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

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

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• 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
  • Want
  • Question

• 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
  • Theory

• 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
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• 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
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Leader

• 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
  • Women
  • School

• 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
  • Up
  • Done

• All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Good
  • Art

• 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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  • Time
  • Great

• 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

• It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People

• I've never been in a band, but I've hung out with a lot of musicians and helped them with their shows. It's something that I'm really drawn to.

  

  Christopher Abbott
  • Band

• My dad A.D. King, Uncle MLK, and Granddaddy King passed on to me their beliefs on biblical marriage. Life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage... We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God’s plan for marriage... It's time to start from scratch and lay the foundation all over again.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Survival

• The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

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

  

  Fred Allen
  • Uncle