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Edward James Olmos Quotes

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

Edward James Olmos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1947

Topics

Fly Better You Able Least Cub

Without micronutrients to remove waste, cells become congested, DNA gets broken, and the body doesn't have the ability to repair itself. Eventually, you get sick.

Broken Sick You Body Repair Become

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Risks Believe Chance You Things How

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Experience Control Win End Easy You

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Politics People Never Things Promise

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

Imagination Yourself Tolerance Lose

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

Tommy Lee Jones

Work People Nothing Pursue Serve

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Family Born India Grandfather Three

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

World Back Way Searching Answers

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church.

Losing Church Political Worth Wall

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

Business People Better You More See

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

People You Situation Drama Matter

My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.

Sports Football Me Mom Play Said

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