Jimmy Smits Quotes
What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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I love my sleep.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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I hate all the terrorists in the world, whatever the purpose of their struggle. However, I support every active civil revolt against any occupation, and Israel, too, is among the despicable occupiers. Such revolt is both more just and more effective, and it does not extinguish one's spark of humanity.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
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You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.
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I had no clue about taxes at all. I didn't know they hit your paycheck. There's something that you've always got to put money away for. I didn't know you've got to put money away for it, even though it's coming out your own money. It's like, 'What the heck?'
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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
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What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.
