Jimmy Smits Quotes

There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thing

• My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Father
  • Amazing

• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• I'm a little angry in life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Angry
  • Little

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Understand
  • Just
  • Privilege

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Love
  • Book
  • Night

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
  • Quality

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Want
  • Value
  • Wealth

• The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Character
  • Fox
  • Goose

• While yonder, wild and blue,the wild blue yonder looms.'Till we are wracked with rheum,by roads, by songs entombed.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Blue

• Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Angel
  • Names

• There's a lot of successful procedural shows that are out there. A lot of them are very successful. I just know there's an audience out there that wants character also.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Character