Fred Allen Quotes

• The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in World, Advertising, Existed

• The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Thing, First

• The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in People, Holding

• The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.

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  Tags in Time, Holding

• Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

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  Tags in Partners, Like

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

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Good, Competition, 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

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  Tags in Material, Comedian, Oblivion

• 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.

  Fred Allen

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  Tags in Heart, Enough

• I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Know, Look

• All I know about humor is that I don’t know anything about it.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in About, Know

• I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

  Fred Allen

  Topics in College

  Tags in Back, Well

Fred Allen (51)

Birth:	31st May, 1894
Death:	17th March, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

About

John Florence Sullivan, known professionally as Fred Allen was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American comedian whose absurdist, topically-pointed radio program The Fred Allen Show made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the Golden Age of American radio. He was honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to television and radio.

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