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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
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I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.
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It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
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I was the illegitimate child of the legitimate theater. I had no training. I came from downtown rock and roll, and when I came in and auditioned for the Broadway revival of 'Hair,' I had no eyebrows - kind of a Bowie-esque glimmer kid. And it was hard representing the flower power era when we were stone cold punks.
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It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
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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.
