Ed Lee Quotes

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

I love kids, and I'm great with them, but I also love being able to give them back.

Australia is so entrenched in rock'n'roll and bands, and that's just the way Australia is.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I've always had an active imagination.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

Who can I turn to? Who can I trust?

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

Whither shall I flee? To no country on earth that I know of where there is as much liberty as yet remains to me even in Virginia.

General Longstreet,when once in a fight, was a most brilliant soldier; but he was the hardest man to move I had in my army.

I will attack no matter what and win the war!

We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.

Teach him to deny himself.

Every student must be a gentleman.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

A body would think that your heart was as black as your face. People thinks now that sweeps is black all through instead of blackall over.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, enters my life that isn't caused or allowed by God and filtered first through His loving hands for the purpose of making me more like Jesus.

I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

I didn’t even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that’s just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.