Edward James Olmos Quotes

You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

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• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

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• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

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• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

  

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• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

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• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

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• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

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• I don't run behind authority.

  

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• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

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• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

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• Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

  

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• I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. My father, before I was born, had been gassed in the first World War, and I wanted to know why there were wars, why people hurt each other, why we couldn't get along together, and what made people tick. That's why I started to write stories.

  

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• The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

  

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• 'When it is time to dress, make-up, take your bath and eat, it is time to hurry. Those things have little to do with your future. Don’t waste your time on what cannot guarantee your future; your mirror keeps deceiving you.'

  

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• The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime Israel, which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.

  

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• Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.

  

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• Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

  

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• For much of the final decade of the 20th century, one story regularly dominated the news across much of the developed world. It was the unravelling of the marriage between the heir to the British throne and his beautiful, charismatic princess, Diana.

  

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• I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional.

  

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• When I was little, I had to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I wrote, 'I want to be an actress-singer-dancer because you can be a rich fairy princess and tell someone off.'

  

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• Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move.

  

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• You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • Princess