Jimmy Smits Quotes

If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

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• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Perfect
  • Safety

• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • She
  • Mother
  • Food

• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Movies

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Look
  • Media
  • Social Media

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Drew Barrymore

• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • People
  • Believe
  • Talent

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

  

  Gary Allan
  • Cool
  • Door
  • Fans

• It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Home
  • Business

• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Small

• Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • Believe
  • Live

• If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Life
  • Live