Ed Lee Quotes
For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.
I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.
I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!
Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.
But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.
What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.
Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.
It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.
The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.
Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.
My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.
I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems.
I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.
Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.