Jimmy Smits Quotes
It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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All my books are optimistic!
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
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I had not even thought of running for president until one day in 1991, at a small fund-raiser, completely unanticipated, someone stood up and said, 'Hey, Mario, in all the years we've supported you, we've never heard you talk about the presidency, and we want to know why not.'
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A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.
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If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
