Jimmy Smits Quotes
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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If to serenade almost to man Is to miss, by that, things as they are, Say that it is the serenade Of a man that plays a blue guitar.
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
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I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.
