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Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
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Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
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If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.
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A psychiatrists is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.
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Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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