Ed Reed Quotes

Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.

The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

My love for animals started before I can remember.

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.

I don't want any special powers. I'm powerless. I wouldn't want to see into the future, I wouldn't want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don't want to relive my past.

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I'd like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

Jackson plays a broken guitar because he’s in love with it, and doesn’t want to fix it, I think. It’s so broken.

Drama sells more than the truth.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

Having people wait outside of my house sort of gives me a panic attack. I'm a believer in the concept that people should not be followed and photographed everywhere.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

Winner gave me my bread and Russell gave me my art.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

Women's right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.

I watch mostly independent films.

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.

I'm an HBO subscriber, and I watch a bunch of great shows on HBO.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

Something will eventually replace the Internet. But it's hard to know what and when it will happen.

Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

I feel lucky to love what I do. It doesn't feel like working. I do all the projects I do because I like doing them, whether it's a book or a photo shoot. For me, my work and my life are the same.

I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?

One can never have too many books.

The collection under my name is an exciting opportunity to really express my own aesthetic and connect with a very different consumer.