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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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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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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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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There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.
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I like the idea of, not shocking people, but just throwing people off. Doing something that makes people go, 'Whoa, whoa, she did that next? Wow, didn't think she was gonna do something like that next.'
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Will I be a success? I don't know.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
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Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.
