Ed Lee Quotes

In this life, you have to risk big to win big.

I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.

Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

The greasier, the better.

I'm lucky, always hopeful... I love my life.

If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!

Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in our children and ultimately it's making a difference in our community.

anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid

I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.

I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.

I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

Relationships do change throughout the course of your life, and I always think in terms of relationships changing and evolving rather than starting and stopping.

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

All children can do things to help, whether how big or small - by donating toys or lending a hand in the community.

I think my customers, my fans are really like my family now - it's like a movement of fabulosity.

I'm not used to having a boss. I'm the boss. I don't need the money. I'm filthy f... rich!

In almost any situation, it is far more devastating to keep your icy cool while the other person gets herself in a flush-cheeked, teary-eyed hot mess yelling in your face.

You don't have to dumb down - you just have to find a clever, good, secure man. I've found a couple - I've been lucky - but it's probably hard for everybody to find that true love of a good man.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

It's always a bit strange when you join a show in the second season.

I actually have a weird tendency to say things to people that they were just about to say. I always freak my best friend out with that. So I might have a bit of psychic power.

I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.

Effie M. was a monster. Six foot high and as strong as a farm horse.No sooner had she decided that she wanted UncleTom than she knocked him off his bicycle and told him.

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult.

In my office, I have framed album covers by Dottie West, Connie Smith, Tammy, Dolly, Loretta and Jessi Colter.

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.

The one who actually decided that I should keep my name was my manager, Erv Woolsey.

My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

I'm not afraid to go out on a limb, style-wise or with lyrics. I don't ever want to be afraid to cut those types of songs because radio might not play it.

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.