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 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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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.
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No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
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We have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenryand said, you don't want the jobs that are available.
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From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.
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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.
