Fred Allen Quotes

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1894 - March 17, 1956

Topics

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I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Jessica Chastain

LoveFearThinkFeelingActorThen

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

LifeChangeBe PreparedLivingMust

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

Andrea M. Ghez

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Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.

Aneel Bhusri

InternetInvestingBecauseConsumer

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

Jeff Bridges

WorkTogetherFunParentPlayWay

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.

Steven Tyler

SchoolSongThinkBetterLearnYou

The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.

Josh Homme

SpeakThinkLanguageYouPlaceStop

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

Dexter Scott King

PeopleJudgeYouWillOwnYour

I started doing sculpture rather than painting. I was halfway through my degree, and I hadn't really done any introduction courses in sculpture... I'd missed all the technical stuff. I didn't really know how to weld or forge or carve or model. I'd sort of evaded all those technique classes, so I had no technique.

Cornelia Parker

PaintingDoingKnowDoneSculpture

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

Bonnie Raitt

MusicGreatMeBetterPolitical

I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.

Asa Butterfield

GoalsMyselfReachYouGoFlow

None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen.

William Scranton

KnowHappenClearlyUsNoneMost

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