Fred Allen Quotes
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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I'm an outsider.
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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
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I don't care more about '13' because it's in the Olivier than I did about 'Cock' in a 100-seat studio. They both matter because it's still a person sat there watching your play. And the play has to be good enough - because there are a hundred other writers out there who deserve to have their play on instead.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
