Fred Allen Quotes

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.

Fred Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.

Joanna Lumley

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There was a massive poster of me down my road, right outside the chip shop. I was about to go in, but then I saw it and changed my mind. Me coming out with a bag of chips, while I'm up there doing crunches on the poster... well, it would not look good.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

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'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.

Anna Kendrick

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I know what I'm missing. I know what I have to work on. Coloratura. And I sing sharp sometimes. It happens when I'm nervous.

Anna Netrebko

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What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.

Jeff Nichols

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There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

Rodney Atkins

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I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.

RuPaul

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I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

Mary Tyler Moore

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Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Mary Roach

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You don't get to make Westerns every day.

Mary Steenburgen

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I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

Lorrie Moore

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I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan.

Judi Shekoni

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