Ed Mayo Quotes
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope.
Quotes to Explore
-
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
-
You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
-
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
-
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
-
I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
-
I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
-
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
-
The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
-
Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
-
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
-
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
-
I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
-
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
-
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
-
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
-
I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
-
I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.
-
Senate Republicans have engaged in a record number of filibusters and other obstructionist tactics.
-
Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.
-
I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.
-
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
-
Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party.
-
Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope.
