One of the aspects of the Post-Civil War period is that it unleashed in the black community this latent talent that had always been there but had not been manifested in so many different areas of activity.


Ed Smith

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed woul...
DOUGLAS WILDER
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
We've had the impression that there has been a decrease in the amount of illegal activity on many ca...
CARY SHERMAN
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU
One-to-one community building, tape trading, is something we've always been about. The idea of a mas...
DENNIS MCNALLY
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of th...
GIANNI AGNELLI
This is the strongest array of talent we've had at the festival, and we've never been able to announ...
JODY KIELBASA
History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO
Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able ...
ROBERT C. TUCKER
We've always been involved in the Games, but this is on a completely different level. This is one ar...
DEAN STOYER
The landscape of this city would have been miserably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon not...
ED RENDELL
The landscape of this city would have been measurably different and decidedly poorer had Ed Bacon no...
ED RENDELL
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
I do recall that, out in Aurora, there had been a small corps of German and Central European immigra...
DEREK MOORE
Certainly not in U.S. foreign assistance, the bipartisan character is not always there. In fact, thi...
GEOFFREY DABELKO
Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO
Much of our efforts in recent years have been on areas that had not been burned.
JOE PADGETT
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught th...
CARL BERNSTEIN
The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not on...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST
That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT
No one has been able to make it work over an extended period. One of the benefits of the pledge peri...
LEA SLOAN
Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to c...
LUIS ARAGONES
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION
You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN
Their period in the apartment together had been one of almost narcotic domesticity.
J.G. BALLARD
I've had so many people in recent years talk to me about a need to foster something like this in the...
BLAINE HUDSON
It's our fault. We should have given him better parts.
, ON HEARING THAT RONALD REAGAN HAD BEEN ELECTED GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA
I suppose 'eclectic' is not the best word to describe him. But I think his impact has been felt in s...
HAL HIGDON
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
The end of the series has massive ramifications. This is one of those things that comes along that s...
MARK MILLAR
There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding th...
GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many follower...
B. CARROLL REECE
The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL
No one is going to convince me that if a bunch of white faces had been paraded out there, that the r...
MICHAEL FREEMAN
There has not been such a significant challenge to the federal government since the Nigerian civil w...
DIMIEARI VON KEMEDI
If I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
In Los Angeles I've been stopped and had my car searched. Why? Because of the fictitious war on drug...
TIM ROBBINS
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
He had been on duty for approximately six months and was in his probationary post-academy period at ...
DOUG MOSIER
Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new son...
GEORGE HARRISON
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER
[In August 1966 the Post 's owner, Katharine Graham, discussed the war with a writer in line to take...
KATHARINE GRAHAM
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizin...
DAVID HERBERT DONALD
Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the ...
WILLIAM SILVERMAN
We haven't had that many snow events this winter, period, and the actual number of events reaching 6...
KARL JUNGBLUTH
I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men ...
DAN GROAT
I've been through a lot. Seen a lot of different guys. This is one of the best teams I've been a par...
WILL CAUDLE
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the Un...
PETER BERGEN
Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON
The depth of management that Riverside had is why they've been so successful and one of the premiere...
DON HOWARD

More Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
ED SMITH
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added ...
ED SMITH
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks a...
ED SMITH
If all the ruminations and ponderances were laid end to end along the equator, they would most likel...
ED SMITH
Duke Ellington doesn't name himself. He's nicknamed by his friends because of the manner in which he...
ED SMITH
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own...
ED SMITH
Give Tattnall some credit. They played great in the first half. When we hit some shots early in the ...
ED SMITH
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke ...
ED SMITH
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
ED SMITH
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardles...
ED SMITH
The community put such a premium on success. And you had no excuse to blame racism or discrimination...
ED SMITH
Vince Young is a hometown hero. He's an icon.
ED SMITH
We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, the...
ED SMITH
We were visited by whites, who always found coming into the black community to be interesting. Some ...
ED SMITH
Ellington never graduated from high school, so when you speak about his success as a musician, his s...
ED SMITH
I'm glad the mayor has given a timetable. I know it's up to him to bring the names, but we don't wan...
ED SMITH
It gives them (amateurs) a chance to get acquainted with tournaments.
ED SMITH
To the best of my knowledge, there will be changes in every single store. There will have to be to m...
ED SMITH
We played about 10 minutes of real good basketball. I don't know if it was our best stretch this sea...
ED SMITH
It's real special when two teams bring everything they have to a championship basketball game. Both ...
ED SMITH
She took it right at those big girls and wasn't scared of them. She gave us the intensity that we ne...
ED SMITH
We know everything gets started with that press. If we can't make shots and get into the press, we s...
ED SMITH
It doesn't mean they will take it up then, but they could.
ED SMITH
This radioactive material was packaged the way it should have been, in the proper equipment, to with...
ED SMITH
We just didn't come out and played focused tonight. We won't win a state title if we play like this....
ED SMITH
We did a good job of executing on defense in the first half. But we missed scoring opportunities aft...
ED SMITH
We felt it was important to maintain consistency across this district.
ED SMITH
There were some kind white people out there who provided a loan here or there, or a little bit of la...
ED SMITH
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself,...
ED SMITH
People reacted badly, largely because it didn't reflect where they are today. Maybe Mary was taking ...
ED SMITH
[Chicago politicians are already denouncing the Bank of America pledge to fund Black history program...
ED SMITH
We've done a much better job this year with our shooting. I felt like that was the biggest area of i...
ED SMITH
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. Pe...
ED SMITH
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminat...
ED SMITH
I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just w...
ED SMITH
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Elli...
ED SMITH
What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
ED SMITH
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itsel...
ED SMITH
I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and En...
ED WESTWICK
I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only h...
ED OXENBOULD
Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts o...
ED GREENWOOD
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a...
ED SHEERAN
There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old...
ED KOCH
I've always had really messy hair.
ED SHEERAN
In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
ED SHEERAN
Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
ED MARKEY
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette...
ED BRADLEY
Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ...
ED RENDELL
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
ED TOWNSEND
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
ED SULLIVAN
I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b...
ED STOPPARD
'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to creat...
ED STOPPARD
In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in...
ED STOPPARD
I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.
ED STOPPARD
The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian...
ED STOPPARD
I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and ...
ED STOPPARD
It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ...
ED STOPPARD
It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
ED STOPPARD
I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
ED STOPPARD
Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
ED STOPPARD
If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
ED STOPPARD
I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
ED STOPPARD
I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind...
ED STOPPARD
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played ...
ED SPELEERS
I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can...
ED SPELEERS
I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi...
ED SPELEERS
Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic s...
ED SPELEERS
I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
ED SPELEERS
I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at...
ED SPELEERS
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, a...
ED SPELEERS
I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t...
ED SPELEERS
I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug...
ED SPELEERS
I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan...
ED SPELEERS
I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
ED SKREIN
You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
ED SKREIN
However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
ED SKREIN
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and...
ED SKREIN
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi...
ED SHEERAN
Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
ED SHEERAN
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.
ED SHEERAN
The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very...
ED SHEERAN
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ...
ED SHEERAN
The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereot...
ED SHEERAN
I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin...
ED SHEERAN
I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illeg...
ED SHEERAN
Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially Amer...
ED SHEERAN
I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point...
ED SHEERAN
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of peo...
ED SHEERAN
I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you&#...
ED SHEERAN
I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves ...
ED SHEERAN
Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer...
ED SHEERAN
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un...
ED ROYCE
The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i...
ED ROYCE
The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement...
ED ROYCE
Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou...
ED ROYCE
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e...
ED ROYCE
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo...
ED ROYCE
I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel...
ED ROYCE
Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and...
ED ROYCE
The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
ED ROYCE
The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th...
ED ROYCE
I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
ED ROYCE
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e...
ED ROYCE
Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin...
ED ROYCE
The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T...
ED ROYCE
The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ...
ED ROYCE
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will...
ED ROYCE
I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th...
ED ROYCE
History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can...
ED ROYCE
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov...
ED ROLLINS
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi...
ED ROLLINS
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec...
ED ROLLINS
Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare...
ED ROLLINS
I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'...
ED ROLLINS
There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
ED ROLLINS
One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never...
ED ROLLINS
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev...
ED ROLLINS
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our ...
ED PASTOR
Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.
ED PASTOR
I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more r...
ED PASTOR
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s...
ED PASTOR
While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
ED PASTOR
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
ED PASTOR
Make health care a right, not a privilege.
ED PASTOR
As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi...
ED PASTOR
Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.
ED PASTOR
Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
ED PASTOR
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
ED PARKER
With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
ED OXENBOULD
I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
ED OXENBOULD
I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would...
ED OXENBOULD
I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible...
ED OXENBOULD
I love working in America!
ED OXENBOULD
I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a...
ED OXENBOULD
I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,...
ED OXENBOULD
My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just s...
ED OXENBOULD
I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
ED OXENBOULD
I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan...
ED OXENBOULD
Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ...
ED OXENBOULD
My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do...
ED O'NEILL
I channel surf like probably most people.
ED O'NEILL
I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
ED O'NEILL
I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
ED O'NEILL
I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to...
ED O'NEILL
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
ED O'NEILL
I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And tha...
ED O'NEILL
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very...
ED O'NEILL
I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ...
ED O'NEILL
I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ...
ED O'NEILL
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there...
ED O'NEILL
In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve...
ED O'NEILL
I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g...
ED O'NEILL
I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
ED O'NEILL
All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe...
ED O'NEILL
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested...
ED O'NEILL
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I&#...
ED O'NEILL
That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w...
ED O'NEILL
When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju...
ED O'NEILL
There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min...
ED O'BRIEN
What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som...
ED O'BRIEN
So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t...
ED O'BRIEN
We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the...
ED O'BRIEN
For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
ED O'BRIEN
At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ...
ED O'BRIEN
It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali...
ED O'BRIEN
Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
ED O'BRIEN
The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t...
ED O'BRIEN
But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w...
ED O'BRIEN
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a...
ED O'BRIEN
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
ED O'BRIEN
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN
We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN
But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN
Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN
There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN
Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN
We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN
We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN
It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN
All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON
The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON
Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
ED MCMAHON
You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
ED MCMAHON
There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
ED MCMAHON
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really...
ED MCMAHON
Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from...
ED MARKEY
The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a...
ED MARKEY
Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
ED MARKEY
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
ED MARKEY
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c...
ED MARKEY
The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
ED MARKEY
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
ED MARKEY
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio...
ED MARKEY
You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
ED MARKEY