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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
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Comedy
Funny
Else
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Around
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Sullivan
Humor
Talent

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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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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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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.
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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 human being is nothing but a story with skin around 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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
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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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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
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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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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
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With the advance of refrigeration, I hope that along with the frozen foods someday we will have frozen conversation. A person will be able to keep a frozen promise indefinitely.
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