Jimmy Smits Quotes
Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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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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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.
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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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The most precious resource we have is time.
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Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.
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Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?
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Women think the people that I play are smoldering and dangerous. I look in the mirror, and I go, 'I don't get it.'
