Edward James Olmos Quotes
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I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
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A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.
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We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?
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Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
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'Stand and Deliver' has been the most successful thing I have done in my life. So many people have seen it. There was really no need for me to do anything else.
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When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.
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What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
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You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.
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Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
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It’s in the darkest moments when the cracks allow the inner light to come out.
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Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
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I want to show how strong I am from my roots.
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Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.
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I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history.
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There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.
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Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.
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Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.
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I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.
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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.