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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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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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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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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When you come through this world, and you become successful, you have to give back.
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If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.
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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.
