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 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 was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look.
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You can't argue with facts and figures. Either people want it, in which case they pay for it, or it's two guys sitting around at the Plaza having a discussion, which means nothing. I mean, Titanic. I wasn't crazy about the movie. But you know what? I'm gonna shut up, because the people have spoken. End of story!
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But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.
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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.
