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Quotations by author » Fred Allen
American Comedian, 1894-1956
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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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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
Life
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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She used to be a teacher but she has no class now
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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.
Television
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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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
Television
Television is called a medium because anything good on it is rare
Television
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Television
The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
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The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
America and Americans
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Advertising
There's good cops, but there's more bad cops than good cops around here.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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We take nominations from the general public, and they go through a screening and voting, which has worked very well for the most part. But it's been a less-than-perfect system for long-dead inventors who don't have a constituency to push for them.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
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What's on your mind? If you'll forgive the overstatement
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