Steve Allen
Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allenwas an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. He graduated to become the first host of The Tonight Show, where he was instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Thereafter, he hosted numerous game and variety shows, including The Steve...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth26 December 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.
I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.
There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.
We expect that things are going to slow down, and that slowdown is going to be evident in two ways. One, we are going to see lower sales volume, fewer houses being sold. Secondly, we think the rate of price inflation will be declining fairly dramatically.
These black holes are very efficient, but it also takes a very long time to refuel them.
Public housing units in New Orleans were huge,
I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.
The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.
We should be able to get more numbers out here to see this, because this is a big event.
We think that will give the students a big edge over people that are just computer science or engineering.
What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.
I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.
We want to follow Bruce on his path. Some of this could be disappointments; we're going to make it real.