Ed Lee Quotes

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

Make it smart. Make it beautiful. Have fun.

Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

The only way to isolate specific back muscles - whether it is upper. or lower back - or make any progress is through the power of the mind-muscle connection.

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

Nobody automatically believes in your dream. Nobody! You have to turn it into reality through your own sheer grit, bullheadedness and persistence.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

It's just, it's fun to stay in the game.

I never get to wear a suit in my life, much less a tuxedo. It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.

There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

Remember, Life is a journey, not a destination.

Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.

I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future."

Don't be so fond of what you planned that somehow to change it seems like a violation of your own choice and wisdom. It's just the opposite.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

Don't be so glued to what you planned that you can't change it.