Jimmy Smits Quotes
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
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If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.
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My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.
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Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
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Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar.
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The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
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Bob Crosby: That's like keeping the smog and throwing away Los Angeles.
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'Whatever situation you are facing, don’t let it overwhelm you. Stay focused because there is something far more important than that situation – your dream and your goals in life.'
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But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.
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Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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I couldn't see myself doing a traditional sitcom.
