Dave Allen Quotes
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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The power of the masses can influence any government in the world. The power of the masses can elect an official, start a revolution, and drive history. Nelson Mandela did it alone from his prison cell. Ghandi did it lying down. Egypt did it singing songs.
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At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.
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Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
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It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.
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Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.
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And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!
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But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.
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Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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He caught him with one finger, and horse-collared him down. Otherwise, he's gone. We win the game.
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Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.
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Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
