Allen Funt Quotes
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It was hard for my father to read; it took him a long time, but he had tremendous retention and tremendous appreciation for writing.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.
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My running was very simple; it was out of myself.
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One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every light bulb and ordered up a bunch of stinky cheese and put it under the mattress.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.
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I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
