Ed Lee Quotes

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

Aging and death is what happens to everybody.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

To be or not to be, that is the choice

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

As I get older, I don't think the world is becoming that funny. Comedy is changing a bit.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

I've always been very self-motivated.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

Nature did not make me willowy.

My drug of choice is historical research.

Tony Bennett, you've helped us share the magic of San Francisco around the world.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Where we're not wrong or where the cost of settling is so much that it is totally disproportionate to the harm or the error that we made, we're not going to settle.

The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

Finders were keepers unless title was proven.

I don't hafta take his sass

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.