Jimmy Smits Quotes

I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

Jimmy Smits

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• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Win

• Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Know
  • Like
  • Generation

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • You
  • Film
  • Chance

• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Like
  • Everyone
  • Legend

• People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in my childhood. 'The Little Mermaid' was the first movie I remember seeing. 'Beauty And The Beast,' 'Aladdin,' those are three I remember right off the bat.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • House
  • Society
  • Summer

• I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Job
  • Career
  • Beginning

• A good system shortens the road to the goal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Road
  • Goal

• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Life
  • Family
  • War

• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Up
  • Love
  • Books

• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • True
  • Knowing
  • Finding

• You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

  

  Dan Severson
  • America
  • Christian
  • Liberty

• I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.

  

  Andrea Arnold

• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Lies

• I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Cooking
  • I Love
  • Crafting

• For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I don't want to have the bounds put on me in terms of mediums.

  

  Jimmy Smits