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.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Food
  • Pet
  • Cats

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Without

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  Val Guest
  • Job
  • Comedy
  • Film

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• 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.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• 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.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Amazing
  • News

• 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.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • World
  • Hate
  • Support

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Progress

• It probably can take me anywhere I want to be, but I have to be honest, being attorney general is a great job.

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • Great
  • Job

• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Author
  • Very

• I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • Good
  • Work
  • Science

• What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Great
  • Career