Will Smith Quotes
I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
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I think that just because you've been through an experience doesn't make you the ultimate arbiter of what it means. We figure things out; we work things out through the help of other people who can engage with us but also be intelligently critical.
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The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all.
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I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
