Jimmy Smits Quotes
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Nutrition is just as important as working out.
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Living a frugal lifestyle gives you the opportunity to invest more money towards your future.
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The 'Doom' thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out. I though it'd be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.
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Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
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Although the Georgian nationalists do not like Stalin, they have every reason to be thankful to him.
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An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.
