Edward James Olmos Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
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The violence in New York feels really mundane and banal to me. Whereas in the privacy of one's own home, say, like the farm I grew up on in Vermont, the kinds of things that can happen seem much more extreme. Maybe because it's more personal. Or maybe because you block out the things that happen in the city. But it's like seeing things born, live, die, fall apart, and start over again, without any intermediary clean-up steps from some corporate organization.
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You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
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Education is a vaccine for violence.
