Ed Lee Quotes

History teaches us hope.

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

I have done a series in the '60s, '70s and '80s.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.

Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing.

Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

Too bad you can't quote the look on my face.

I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

If you are always trying to do something great and different and fresh, lots of them are going to be shut down for lots of stupid or good reasons, but you have to keep on trying.

I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it.

My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

It's not always what you know, but who you know. Get out and meet people.

There's one thing I believe, is that I don't know anything and anything could happen.

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.

Marriage is an extremely difficult relationship.

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.