Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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Consult duty not events.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.
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My current novel, Pallas, is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
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There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.
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Mormonism, it seems to me, is-objectively-just a little more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be: because it is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas.
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I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
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To me, it's always about quality not quantity.
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.
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I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.
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Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
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God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
