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" Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. "
Fred Allen
Never
Year
Creation
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" 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. "
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Who
Meet
" What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. "
Fred Allen
Your
Mind
Allow
" Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs. "
Fred Allen
Stars
Church
God
" If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. "
Fred Allen
Membership
Race
Back
" I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. "
Fred Allen
Play
Own
My Own
" Television is the triumph of machine over people. "
Fred Allen
People
Television
Triumph
" The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. "
Fred Allen
Advertising
Before
Space
" During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. "
Fred Allen
Days
Today
Big
" A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. "
Fred Allen
Will
Press
Star
" 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. "
Fred Allen
Wild
Church
Failure
" You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. "
Fred Allen
Fruit
Heart
Place
" 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
Age
History
Living
" California is a great place to live if you're an orange. "
Fred Allen
Place
Orange
Live
" I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. "
Fred Allen
Want
Own
Coffin
" Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. "
Fred Allen
Will
Someone
Talent
" 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. "
Fred Allen
Strange
Life
Shoulders
" Imitation is the sincerest form of television. "
Fred Allen
Form
Sincerest
Imitation
" I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. "
Fred Allen
Full
Front
Bottle
" The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. "
Fred Allen
Exposed
Advertising
Conference
" I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "
Fred Allen
People
Like
Long
" All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. "
Fred Allen
Humor
Anything
About
" I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap. "
Fred Allen
Because
Family
Know
" Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. "
Fred Allen
Television
Watch
Who
" My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. "
Fred Allen
Never
Father
Children
" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "
Fred Allen
Puns
Good
Hanging
" I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. "
Fred Allen
Up
You
Yourself
" I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. "
Fred Allen
Back
Got
Day
" A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on. "
Fred Allen
Man
Who
Woman
" A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. "
Fred Allen
People
Decide
Done
" 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. "
Fred Allen
World
Achievement
Go