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

• When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Culture
  • You
  • Forever

• 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

• A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Struggle

• The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Money
  • Society
  • Wife

• Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Soul
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Girl
  • Small
  • Crush

• People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Want
  • Social
  • Form

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

  

  Jimmy Smits