Jimmy Smith Quotes
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.
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People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
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I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.
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I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
