Ed Lee Quotes
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.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
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.
She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.
You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.
The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.
No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.
If there are people who like the work you've done, because of that, they like you and want your autograph and to take a photo, that's really gratifying. You have to be appreciative.
I've made many good friends in bodybuilding, though there are few I'd trust to oil my back.
I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.
Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.
And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities
I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.
I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?
There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.
A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.
Web applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next.
I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.
No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
'25th Hour,' like a lot of my films, takes place in New York City. I've been very fortunate to make films in the city that I live. I mean, it's great going home at night instead of being on location.
