Ed Rollins Quotes

I am basically working 7 days a week. When I am not eating, sleeping, or working out, I am working on one of projects which I am just damned determined to finish.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.

All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America.

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire.

Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.

We came to the end, we found nothing. Nothing!!! And we cursed because we were hoping for so much less.

Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.

I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

I feel that I have an obligation to jazz and also to myself to play as good as I can play.

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.

Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.

I cling to my memories of glorious desperation.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

I am well protected Too locked up Inside myself To get free

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.

You can still function as a living ruin.

You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.