Ed Lee Quotes

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

Comming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

I'm not ashamed of showing my curves to the world. Bodies are beautiful when they're full and healthy and fit. I've always had curves and I'll always be proud of them.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic lead, a musical.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know what's around the corner.

I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.

There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?'

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.

I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.

Never settle for the path of least resistance

I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.

Lois pursues the truth no matter what sort of adversity faces her. I think Superman sees that, and it's the same moral compass that he has from the Kents.

You never know when you're making a memory.

The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.

Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative