Edward James Olmos Quotes

• I’m here to make sense.

  Edward James Olmos

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• Education is the vaccine for violence.

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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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• There are nuclear weapons in China, Iran, Korea and Pakistan. It wouldn’t take much to send a couple of warheads off on this planet somewhere that would cause a lot of environmental damage, then if you have got someone who wants to retaliate you have real problems.

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• Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don’t have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

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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.

  Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (30)

Birth:	24th February, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Producer, Singer

About

Edward James Olmos was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor, director, and producer. His notable direction, production and starring roles for films, made-for-TV movies and TV shows include Wolfen, Triumph of the Spirit, Talent for the Game, and American Me. In 1988, Olmos was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for the film Stand and Deliver. In his teen years, he turned to rock and roll, and became the lead singer for a band he named Pacific Ocean, so-called because it was to be "the biggest thing on the West Coast".

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