Jimmy Smits Quotes
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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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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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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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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Every time I go on stage, it's like a first date. I put on my best clothes, shave, and get as handsome as I can. Then I say the cutest things I know to say, and I become the very best Bill Medley I can be because I want to win my date over. My audience is the date that I want to impress every time.
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I just to put out the best records I can and perform the best I can.
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History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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'West Wing' was a show about politics.
