Edward James Olmos Quotes
Life’s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.
Quotes to Explore
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
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And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.
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I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
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I still carry with me the same themes as always - I'm still compelled to present mystic ideas...
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Life’s a journey that goes round and round and the end is closest to the beginning.
