Jimmy Smits Quotes
There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I don't like meeting bands that I like, because in the slight case that they might not be cool, it kind of ruins it for me.
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I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
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Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?'
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
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There's show business, and the business is sometimes in capital letters. You just have to give it your best shot when up at bat.
