Jimmy Smits Quotes
I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
Quotes to Explore
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
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Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.
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I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.
