Ed McClanahan Quotes

We've struggled a little bit with losing our focus at times. But we didn't do that in the first half tonight. We clicked on all cylinders.

Ed McClanahan

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Nothing

• The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Thought

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Book
  • Travel

• I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Why
  • Game
  • Feel

• If someone doubts our right to exist - be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich's beer halls, in Gaza's crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar - it's their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn't love them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Proud
  • Right

• James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Up
  • Desire

• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  

  Mary Astell

• SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

  

  Chey Tae-won
  • Culture

• No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

  

  Anna Akana
  • Book
  • Control

• I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.

  

  Bonnie Langford
  • Done
  • Why
  • Singing

• I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Work

• Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • People
  • Brotherhood

• Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

  

  Nell Freudenberger
  • Long
  • She
  • Character

• When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Different
  • Country

• You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Good
  • Money
  • Respect

• I always focus on team building - both in office and at home.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Home
  • Team
  • Focus

• I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Focus

• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

  

  Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Everyday

• It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Happy
  • Wanted
  • Made

• We've struggled a little bit with losing our focus at times. But we didn't do that in the first half tonight. We clicked on all cylinders.

  

  Ed McClanahan
  • Focus
  • Clicked
  • Cylinders