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.
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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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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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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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Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.
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It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
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Anyone who knows me, knows I don't walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.
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Mothers are the only ones that think nothing is beyond their control when it comes to their children.
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Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
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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.
