Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes
I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.
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I grew up in a family where law was in the air we were breathing.
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Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
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I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.
