Ed Lee Quotes

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

Never settle for the path of least resistance

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

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.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.

She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old.

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.

TV spots are short. If you can't hold folks' attention for 20 seconds before revealing the brand, find another line of work.

You have to be daring and make something that doesn't look like anybody else.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done.

The Semantic Web isn't inherently complex. The Semantic Web language, at its heart, is very, very simple. It's just about the relationships between things.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

God got nothing to lose. Them who think they can use God, they wiping out them own selves. If you think you can use God, you are destroying your own self.

I should probably never describe myself as adorable.

Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.

Spirit, faith, and positive energy are the core of human life, without them you lose your way. You live without Zest. You go through the motions but there's no passion

You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.

I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.