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Fred Allen Quotes

«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.»
«The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.»
Author: Fred Allen (Comedian) | Keywords: Paris, strikes, taxi, taxis, visitor
«The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.»
«Television is the triumph of machine over people.»
Author: Fred Allen (Comedian) | About: Television | Keywords: machine, television, triumph
«Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.»
Author: Fred Allen (Comedian) | About: Killing | Keywords: drawn, hanging, punning, Puns, quoted
«Television is a triumph of equipment over people and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart»
«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.»
«Everywhere outside New York City is Bridgeport, Connecticut.»
«I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.»
«During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk»

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