Steve Allen (Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen) Quotes
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.
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I think, over the years, I've earned the respect of my teammates as someone who first got on the scene and wasn't internationally ready and has just continued to put in the work.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
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No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.
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I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant and no longer the master.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
