Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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A library implies an act of faith.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.
