Ed Reed Quotes

It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me, RIP is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

My God is rock'n'roll.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

Do what you must, but do it well, above all enjoy yourself!

I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.

When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

Drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Be big, fast and flexible.

Things always seem to end before they start

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

Follow your heart and don't question it, no matter where it tells you to go It will open up a world of experiences you can't even imagine.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Our brand at Netflix is really focused on movies and TV shows.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

If the money's right, I'll do a film.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and after every scoop. Then it just rolls off.