Tom Allen Quotes
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.
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With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
