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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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I no longer limit myself.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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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 life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
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The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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Education is a vacine for violence.
