Ed Lee Quotes

When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

There is nothing outside the universe.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Perception is a powerful tool.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

Just because I keep getting close and don't win these Majors, I must not panic.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.

Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

My life and work are not separate. I just have more roles than other people. And I have photographs.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.