Edward James Olmos Quotes

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

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• Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
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• Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.

  

  Gary Owens
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• What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
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• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
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• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
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• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.

  

  Adam McKay
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• American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
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• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
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• My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

  

  Earl Campbell
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• Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
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• Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
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  • Women

• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Choices
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• When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.

  

  Eric Whitacre
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• I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.

  

  Jaime King
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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  

  Sergey Brin
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• Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • World
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• Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Important