Jason T. Smith Quotes
Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I love Bethnal Green and where I'm from. Nothing there, especially the people, ever held me back, but I never felt that I was successful there.
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American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
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Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
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So my thing is we want come in and diffuse anything that's not real, anything that doesn't associate with real hip-hop. We want to be the one that says, 'Yo, we want to help build and build a bigger and better industry.' I'm just like, 'Yo, with talent from Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec. Who's paying attention?'
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I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.
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A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.
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Washington politicians should not be treated any differently than any other American. That's what people are fed up with.
