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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I like things simple.
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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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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.
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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.
