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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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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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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Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.
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My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
