Ed McMahon Quotes

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

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• I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

  

  Babe Ruth
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• Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

  

  Jacob Artist
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• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
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• Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
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  • Black
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• When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Feeling
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• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
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• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • You
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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

  Oscar Levant
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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
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• An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

  

  James Lecesne
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• Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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• Revolutionaries are not infallible.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

  

  Neil Postman
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• It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

  

  Ed McMahon
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