Edward James Olmos Quotes

I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

Edward James Olmos

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• I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Life
  • World
  • Nonsense

• When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Get

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Character
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Me

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Without
  • Complexity

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  

  Gary Player
  • Game
  • Play
  • Golf

• Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • God
  • Family
  • Friends

• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Facts
  • Numbers
  • Belong

• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Only
  • Heroism

• One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Song

• Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Dream

• You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.

  

  Christian Kane

• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Racism

• The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.

  

  Donna Shalala
  • Dog
  • Sunday
  • Saturday

• We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Film
  • Script
  • Translated

• When you know that you have to flirt with someone, when you have a date or that you're looking for someone to love or for someone to love you back, you always try to show something better than yourself. Because you want to show off, obviously, you want to show the best side of you. Instead, when you have nothing to lose, you're just yourself. And maybe this is the best part, when another person can fall in love with you.

  

  Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Show
  • Side
  • Flirt

• I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

  

  David Dreier
  • People
  • Working
  • Security

• I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.

  

  Edward James Olmos