Edward James Olmos Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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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.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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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.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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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.
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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!
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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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
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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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.
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You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.
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There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.
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I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.
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Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
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When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.
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I love to drive. It's one of the most pleasurable things to me.
