Jimmy Smits Quotes
I used to wear sneakers with those nice suits because I wanted Victor Sifuentes to have a bounce in the courtroom.
Quotes to Explore
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
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I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
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I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.
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Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
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I used to wear sneakers with those nice suits because I wanted Victor Sifuentes to have a bounce in the courtroom.
