Jimmy Smits Quotes

I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

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• I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

  

  Natasha Poly
  • Light
  • Everyday
  • Blue

• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Happens
  • Starbucks
  • Mostly

• 'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Show
  • Very
  • Grey

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• 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.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Want
  • Natural
  • Straight

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• 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.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Life
  • Parents
  • My Life

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• 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.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• I am pretty tough as a boss.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Pretty
  • Boss

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Regret

• En Masse. It was the French way, the method that had brought victory to the armies of the Empire, the irresistible mass. Throw the mass like a human missile at the Castle's defenders, overwhelm them with targets, terrify them with the massed drummers in the column's centre, and push over the dead to victory.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Victory

• I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Reading

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Long
  • Future
  • Beginning

• I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Long
  • Commitment