Fred Allen Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
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“Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.”
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“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.”
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“Imitation is the sincerest form of television.”
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“Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.”
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“What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.”
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“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.”
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“It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.”
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“If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.”
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“Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.”
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“Television is the triumph of machine over people.”
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“Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.”
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“I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.”
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“If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.”
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“The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.”
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“A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.”
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“California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.”
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“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.”
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“A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”
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“A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.”
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“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.”
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“I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.”
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“The world is a grindstone and life is your nose”
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“Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.”
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“Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.”
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“Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.”
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“It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.”
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“An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.”
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“The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.”
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“If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.”
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