Edward James Olmos Quotes
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters.
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If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
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My parents are my role models. All they've done for me, they're just major people in my life. They've stood by me and got me where I am today.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.
