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We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.
Edward James Olmos
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The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
Edward James Olmos
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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.
Edward James Olmos
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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.
Edward James Olmos
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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.
Edward James Olmos
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Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.
Edward James Olmos
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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.
Edward James Olmos
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At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
Edward James Olmos
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Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.
Edward James Olmos
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I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Edward James Olmos
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I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos
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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.
Edward James Olmos
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