Jimmy Smits Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
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My grandfather and my father had wheat ranches, so we had quite a few trucks around and a lot of mules. Talk about horsepower - we had mule power.
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I am never sure that anything's good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.
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My favorite thing about going to concerts has always been looking around and thinking that there's a lot of people in here that are very much like me, a lot of people in here I could have a full conversation with.
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Half the battle is confidence. There are people who have great figures but have terrible confidence so you are not drawn to them because they seem down all the time.
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When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.
