Edward James Olmos Quotes
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
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It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
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Breakfast seemed to be a good time for throwing your emotions around. Jodie said that at this place emotions were like Frisbees – people just tossed them around all day long like they were at a park.
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I'm here to make sense.
