Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
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I think we just got outplayed. I think Oklahoma just played better than we did. They certainly displayed the fact that they were a little tougher than we were.
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Most of my reading is based on what I'm working on. I did a series of paintings based on the seven deadly sins, so I read Dante and then Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' That was a bit hard going.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.
