Edward James Olmos Quotes

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Edward James Olmos

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• A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

  

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• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

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• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

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• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

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• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  

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• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
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• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
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• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

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• A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  

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• When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.

  

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• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

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• Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

  

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• If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

  

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• The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

  

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• The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

  

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• I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.

  

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• I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.

  

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• It is not the function of the leader of government business to discipline members of the executive.

  

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  • Business
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• The Internet is a container, not a substance.

  

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• Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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• Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Discipline