Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To survive one must study the habits of cannibals. (p. 261)
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I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
