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Steve Allen

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I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.


— Steve Allen


#gambler #heavy #how #i #just

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.


— Steve Allen


#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.


— Steve Allen


#dark #energy #mystery #perhaps #physics

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.


— Steve Allen


#around #asthma #bother #cigar #cigars

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.


— Steve Allen


#get #helps #humor #over #social

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.


— Steve Allen


#capital punishment #guide #half #killed #matter

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.


— Steve Allen


#god #him #holy #must #phrase

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


— Steve Allen


#cheerleaders #insist #our #presidents #rational

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.


— Steve Allen


#except #exist #good #imaginations #many

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.


— Steve Allen


#hair #head #real






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Politics
Allen was keenly interested in social justice and wrote pamphlets on a variety of issues including the problems facing migrant workers as well as the problems of capital punishment and nuclear weapons proliferation. Sheldon and later Robert Westbrook.

Allen won a Grammy award in 1963 for best jazz composition with his song The Gravy Waltz. Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen (December 26 1921 – October 30 2000) was an American television personality musician composer actor comedian and writer. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show.

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