Begley Quotes

#1. Time magazine has selected their person of the year. Guess what, it's President-elect Barack Obama. Yeah, ironically, Ebony magazine announced their person of the year, and it's Ed Begley Jr.

Conan O'Brien

#2. My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

Jeff Goldblum

#3. You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing.

Sara Gilbert

#4. You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

Ed Begley Jr.

#5. If you want to relive old memories, call Sleeping Beauty; maybe she hasn't woken up and discovered you're an asshole.

Jamie Begley

#6. It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.

Ed Begley Jr.

#7. We forget most of our past but embody all of it.

Adam Begley

#8. For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

Ed Begley Jr.

#9. My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.

Louis Begley

#10. I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

Ed Begley Jr.

#11. People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

Ed Begley Jr.

#12. When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

Ed Begley Jr.

#13. This is a deeply spiritual issue ... Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment.

Ed Begley Jr.

#14. You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Ed Begley Jr.

#15. My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

Ed Begley Jr.

#16. I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

Louis Begley

#17. What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

Ed Begley Jr.

#18. The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.

Ed Begley Jr.

#19. I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

Ed Begley Jr.

#20. When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

Ed Begley Jr.

#21. If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

Ed Begley Jr.

#22. Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

Sharon Begley

#23. As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

Ed Begley Jr.

#24. When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

Ed Begley Jr.

#25. People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

Ed Begley Jr.

#26. I wanted to be an actor my whole young life. My dad was an actor, obviously - he won an Academy Award, but I had no idea what was involved. I had all the wrong ideas about acting.

Ed Begley Jr.

#27. I think I am less self-assured when I write English than I would be if I were writing in my first language. I have to test each sentence over and over to be sure that it's right, that I haven't introduced some element that isn't English.

Louis Begley

#28. I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

Ed Begley Jr.

#29. My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.

Ed Begley Jr.

#30. The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking ...

Sharon Begley

#31. To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work ... how about ... just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

Ed Begley Jr.

#32. I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

Louis Begley

#33. She would be no match against those thugs disguised as women. When

Jamie Begley

#34. Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

Ed Begley Jr.

#35. For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

Ed Begley Jr.

#36. A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

Sharon Begley

#37. Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Sharon Begley

#38. It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

Ed Begley Jr.

#39. I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.

Louis Begley

#40. I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

Ed Begley Jr.

#41. By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.

Ed Begley Jr.

#42. begrudgingly. "When you're done, I expect to see you." Diamond nodded before going down

Jamie Begley

#43. I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

Ed Begley Jr.

#44. I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

Ed Begley Jr.

#45. I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.

Louis Begley

#46. The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Sharon Begley

#47. One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

Ed Begley Jr.

#48. Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.

Ed Begley Jr.

#49. We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

Sharon Begley

#50. The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

Sharon Begley

#51. If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Louis Begley

#52. Men could be faithful to a job, to their friends. Hell, they would even be loyal to their dog before they were faithful to their wives. That was why she had sworn never to get married.

Jamie Begley

#53. When you sleep at night, dream of me, as I will dream of you. So even in our dreams, we will never be apart.

Jamie Begley

#54. There are many different ways now to experience nature. Get out there and hike.

Ed Begley Jr.

#55. Watch the fucking food!

Jamie Begley

#56. I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

Ed Begley Jr.

#57. Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

Sharon Begley

#58. With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

Sharon Begley

#59. The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

Ed Begley Jr.

#60. If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.

Ed Begley Jr.

#61. women leave a piece of themselves behind with each man, whether it's taken or given.

Jamie Begley

#62. The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

Sharon Begley

#63. I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

Ed Begley Jr.

#64. In legal practice, in the representation of clients, I have always felt deeply engaged, serene, and not all inclined to stand aside. I have always done whatever needed to be done, and have usually gotten my way.

Louis Begley

#65. I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.

Ed Begley Jr.

#66. I married a very devious man." "That's how I caught you." Viper

Jamie Begley

#67. Experience nature. Then you know why it's worth protecting.

Ed Begley Jr.

#68. For compulsions, according to a growing body of scientific evidence, are a response to anxiety. Suffused and overwhelmed by anxiety, we grab hold of any behavior that offers relief by providing even an illusion of control.

Sharon Begley

#69. People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

Ed Begley Jr.

#70. The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper ...

Ed Begley Jr.

#71. When two people clash, two series collide.

Jamie Begley

#72. I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

Ed Begley Jr.

#73. California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

Ed Begley Jr.

#74. The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

Ed Begley Jr.