Edward James Olmos Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.
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I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
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I've told you and I've told the Canadian people, Mr. Mulroney, that I had no option.
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The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger.
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I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.
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Success is a matter of one's own feeling about oneself.
