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" Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. "
Fred Allen
Television
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" I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is. "
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" I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. "
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" Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. "
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" 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. "
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" I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. "
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Got
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" I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. "
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Own
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" I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement. "
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" If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. "
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Back
" An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. "
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Actor
Success
Small
" 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. "
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Age
History
Living
" The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. "
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Religion
People
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" A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. "
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Group
Appointed
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" Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. "
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Will
Someone
Talent
" 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. "
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World
Achievement
Go
" Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. "
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Puns
Good
Hanging
" 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. "
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Wild
Church
Failure
" Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. "
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Bag
Men
Mediocrity
" I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. "
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People
Like
Long
" Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners. "
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Like
Treat
Partners
" I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. "
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Why
Understand
Person
" All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it. "
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Humor
Anything
About
" The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. "
Fred Allen
Down
Funny
Him
" What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. "
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Your
Mind
Allow
" The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed. "
Fred Allen
Advertising
Before
Space
" Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. "
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Mistake
Stars
Place
" My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. "
Fred Allen
Never
Father
Children
" A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. "
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Glasses
Person
Famous
" During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. "
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Days
Today
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Committee
Done
Group