Steve Allen Quotes

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Steve Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: entertainer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000

Topics

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I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

John Oates

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I'm absolutely compelled for NASA to send international astronauts to Mars to find out if Mars ever harbored life.

John M. Grunsfeld

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I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I can send them to prison.

Robert Rinder

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I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

Jeff Dunham

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I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

Mary Gaitskill

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It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limit. I'm always really impressed by actors who are able to construct a character, like Johnny Depp.

Louis Garrel

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I love monsters.

China Mieville

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Illinois had the first aquarium built in Chicago. The very first skyscraper in the entire world was built in Chicago in 1885. The tallest building in North America, formerly the Sears Tower, now Willis Tower, is in Chicago. Evanston, home to Northwestern, is also home to the ice cream sundae. Illinois has a lot to be proud of.

Brad Schneider

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It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.

Bradley Wiggins

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Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

Penn Badgley

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Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy.

Nigel Farage

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