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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• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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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.

  

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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.'

  

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

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
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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?

  

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

  

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  

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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.

  

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• In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.

  

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• I'd like to congratulate myself, and thank myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

  

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• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

  

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• Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

  

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• I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

  

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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
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