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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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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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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Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'
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At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
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If the right guy pops the question, I'll say yes.
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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.
