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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great. ↗

— Fred Allen

#bad #competition #good #good actor #great

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

#been #comedian #comedy #compelled #compete

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#half #i #i was born #surprised #talk

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#postage #president #stamp #today #tomorrow

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#atlanta #city #good #had #spirit

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it. ↗

— Ivan Allen

#got #middle #only #stop #the only thing

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ↗

— James Allen

#day #dream #dreams #ideal #last

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. ↗

— James Allen

#alters #find #him #his #life

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence. ↗

— James Allen

#gentle #nothing #presence #softened #spell