18 quotes by Fred A. Allen

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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.

Fame

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A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Communication

4.7 · 32 votes · 141 reads

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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Media

4.3 · 28 votes

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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Fashion

3.9 · 54 votes · 173 reads

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Memory

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Society
I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
3.7 · 13 votes · 145 reads
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Feelings
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
3.2 · 64 votes · 96 reads
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Society
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.
3.8 · 24 votes · 70 reads
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Nature
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.
4.0 · 22 votes · 148 reads
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Society
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.
4.9 · 10 votes · 137 reads
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Feelings
Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
3.1 · 44 votes · 77 reads
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Art and Culture
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
4.8 · 13 votes · 55 reads
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Society
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
4.9 · 12 votes · 113 reads
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Society
The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
3.8 · 39 votes · 198 reads
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Feelings
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
3.4 · 32 votes · 107 reads
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Society
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
3.6 · 36 votes · 190 reads
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Society
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
4.4 · 30 votes · 163 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.8 · 59 votes · 67 reads
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