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Edward James Olmos Quotes

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.

Edward James Olmos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beauty Culture Diversity You Down

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

Joe Garcia

Good Job Government You Crime Give

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

John Barrowman

Pilot Airline Wanted Younger Seconds

If you're doing a musical, you should be out to give the audience something special, emotional, an uplifting feeling, something that stays with them. And you're not going to do that by bumming them out.

Robert Lopez

Doing You Feeling Special Emotional

After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.

Maureen Forrester

Time World Career Over Years Just

I have the skills to box and not get into a war. I've been getting punishment I shouldn't be taking because, sometimes, I'm too brave for my own good. When I've got good footwork and movement, I should use them.

Amir Khan

Good War Brave Skills Sometimes Box

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Stevie Wonder

Love God I Am Me Love Me Mean

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

Steve Martin

Yourself You Find Something Going

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

Ruth Wilson

Job Yourself Fashion Opportunities

When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.

DeRay Mckesson

Truth People Think Someone Worry

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

Chi McBride

Think Interesting Lawyers Television

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

Condoleezza Rice

Woman You Fault Because Your State

I should say that I usually have a good experience on Amtrak. Still, if Amtrak could replace electric horns with steam whistles, they could make big strides. A horn is a horn is a horn, but a steam whistle is a voice and a song. People used to know which engineer was running which engine based on the call of the whistle.

Brian Floca

Good Experience People Song Voice