Fred Allen Quotes

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

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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Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jennifer Egan

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One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

John Hume

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You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Anita Brookner

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How about we let the states be innovative on Medicaid and do much better and smarter things?

Steve Scalise

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You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

Tony Blair

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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Michel Gondry

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I have made stage adjustments which allow me to hear myself better onstage so that has made playing live much more enjoyable.

Michael Schenker

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The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Christian Louboutin

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There is nothing that anyone can say to prepare you for childbirth. Each woman's experience is so different; you never know how it will be for you!

Poppy Montgomery

ExperienceWomanYouKnowNothing

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Thomas Schlamme

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