"In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders."

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Source : Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

Steve Allen

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“I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org
“Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.”
“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”

Source : "Resignation and postmortem". www.jwz.org. March 31, 1999.
“I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.”
“Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.”
“I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.”
“Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.”
“Belief forms behavior.”

Source : David Klinghoffer (2007). “Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril”, p.193, Image

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