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 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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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.
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Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!
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Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.
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But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
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Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
