Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

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• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
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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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • You
  • Brain
  • Give

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Government

• There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Actors
  • Writer
  • Lines

• 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.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Time
  • Think
  • Labels

• I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Different
  • American
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Nature
  • See
  • Development

• Consult duty not events.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Duty
  • Events
  • Consult

• I haven't done an international film for a long time.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• 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.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• 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.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • War
  • Culture
  • Uncle

• He would not journey without a foot. He would not breed nuts without trees, Like seeking for ants in the heath. Like an instrument of foolish spoil, Like the retinue of an army without a head, Like feeding the unsheltered on lichen.

  

  Taliesin
  • Journey
  • Army

• There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Real

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Stupid

• ..it had been fun to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery..

  

  Otto Dix
  • Fun

• It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Sky
  • Experiences

• Global competition is about winners and losers.

  

  David Korten
  • Competition

• Meekness is marked by silence in the face of abuse and infamy, by submission to God's way, which is higher than our way as heaven is higher than the earth, by submissiveness to others for their welfare. It is the source of inexpressible joy and contentment.

  

  V. Raymond Edman
  • God
  • Earth
  • Joy

• “It is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals. The hospital itself imposes a special environment in which the meanings of behavior can easily be misunderstood. The consequences to patients hospitalized in such an environment-the powerlessness, depersonalization, segregation, mortification, and self-labeling-seem undoubtedly countertherapeutic.”

  

  David Rosenhan
  • Insane
  • Patients
  • Sane

• If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

  

  Steve Allen
  • God
  • Phrase
  • Holy War