Jimmy Smits Quotes
The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.
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When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist when asked if he is a 'Newtonian,' or if he is a 'Pasteurian'. There are truths so evident, so much a part of people's knowledge, that it is now useless to discuss them.
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I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.
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The Fourth of July concert is invigorating in so many ways, in terms of what it feels like to be an American.
