Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way to achieve the Oregon Business Plan's goal of reducing the number of people living in poverty.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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A runner fell, and this caused a big pileup in which that runner got trampled and spiked, ... When we looked back 10 seconds later, the guy was still on the ground.
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Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
