Ed Reed Quotes

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.

Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.

In the numbing hands of pretentious filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, history does not repeat itself in any way whatsoever.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

They could do worse, and they undoubtedly will.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

It's just a temporary thing.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

I've been drinking. Now I'm going to drink some more.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

You're going to reap just what you sow

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

Awe and respect are two different things.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

The things that concern us during the day are going to influence what we experience during the night.

I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait

When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.