Jimmy Smits Quotes

I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

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• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• India always inspires me.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Me
  • Always
  • India

• What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Together
  • Want
  • Community

• Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Curiosity
  • Most
  • Permanent

• Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • War
  • Peace
  • Act

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• 'Dear Reader,' New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015

  

  C. K. Williams
  • May

• 18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• Well I know that you worry a lot about Things you cant control There are so many things wed like to have But we just cannot hold You've got to be kind to yourself You've got to be kind to yourself

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Control
  • Worry

• Roger tried to find out all about her: he wanted, in one brief hour, to make up for a lifetime of non-acquaintance, a lifetime for all practical purposes wasted.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up

• Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state: So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Power
  • Hope
  • Free

• Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.) (5)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth

• Ch'ove femine son, son liti e risse.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto
  • Son

• You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Done
  • Joy
  • Unique

• No matter what we are, and what we sing,Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

  

  Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • Time

• I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People

• Even when I was little, I was big.

  

  William Perry
  • Big
  • Little

• I'm so grateful to Spotify for the enormous support to the reggaeton movement.

  

  J Balvin
  • Support

• For a traveler going from any place toward the north, that pole of the daily rotation gradually climbs higher, while the opposite pole drops down an equal amount.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Amount
  • Traveler
  • Rotation

• Bernard Leach was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Beautiful
  • Wish
  • Incredibles

• I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Always
  • Camera

• I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.

  

  Jimmy Smits