Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
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Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
