Jimmy Smits Quotes
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
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I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
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Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
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They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
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I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.
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I am a film buff.
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All good art is abstract.
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
