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

  

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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.

  

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• I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

  

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• [James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

  

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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