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Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
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Journalist
Radio Personality
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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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.
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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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On ships they call them barnacles in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
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A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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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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The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
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He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
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The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.
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He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive. Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station.
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