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«Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
mindless, On the Radio, radio, theater
«Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
institutionalize, institutionalized, patriotism, totalitarianism
«Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality»
«The hair is real; it's the head that's fake»
«If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
capital, capital punishment, in the United States, Old Testament, reliable, testament, the matter
«Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.»
«If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.»
«Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, businessmen, checks, checks and balances, compromised, crooked, government officials, make out, officials
«In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Presidency,
Society
| Keywords:
cheerleaders, insist, Presidents
«The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Philosophy,
Problems,
Reason
| Keywords:
bizarre, formal, high-minded, irrational, untrained
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