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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I think a sense of humor is a very personal thing, and I don't know if I am talented enough to do romantic comedies.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
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Nick Hornby's a genius.
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There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
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WHILE I THINK the reasons for postmortems are compelling, I know that most people still resist them. So I want to share some techniques that can help managers get the most out of them. First of all, vary the way you conduct them. By definition, postmortems are supposed to be about lessons learned, so if you repeat the same format, you tend to uncover the same lessons, which isn’t much help to anyone.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
