Clive Anderson Quotes

It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

Clive Anderson

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• If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Start

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Trophy

• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Fun

• I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Moment

• In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Myself
  • Waiting
  • Weird

• When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Single

• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Rest
  • Ideas

• I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • People
  • Believe
  • User

• I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Understand
  • Clothes
  • Street

• Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Workplace

• Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Time

• There ought to be a million-person march on the Mall... that can be heard in the living quarters of the White House.

  

  Arlen Specter
  • House
  • March

• We have sought truth, and sometimes perhaps found it. But have we had any fun?

  

  Benjamin Jowett
  • Truth
  • Fun

• Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Music
  • Writing

• American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • American
  • History
  • Father

• I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Time
  • Garden
  • Plant

• I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Why
  • Political
  • Marriage

• The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven

• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Grows
  • Poison
  • Apples

• It is a bit frustrating. Things come and go in television. At the moment they've gone.

  

  Clive Anderson