"Television is the triumph of machine over people." — Fred Allen
"Television is the triumph of machine over people."
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Fred Allen
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93 Quotes by Fred Allen
Fred Allen has 93 quotes on this site.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners…
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition…
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
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More Machine Quotes
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is…
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Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine…
— George Matthew Adams
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
— Antonio Banderas
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
— Travis Barker
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
— Aneurin Bevan
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe…
— Sara Blakely
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Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?
— Ray Bradbury
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