Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.
Quotes to Explore
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Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.
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What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.
