Jimmy Smith Quotes
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.
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It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.
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When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.
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'Masturbation is one of the safest ways to explore your own sexuality.'
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I noticed that in 'The Revenant,' as much as it is a good story of revenge and endurance, there are times that you get to escape with a story like that.
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Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
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'Switched at Birth' has an amazing cast, including an Oscar winner and two Emmy nominees. The writing is very innovative, and the show's producers have redefined U.S. TV by launching a mainstream show which includes multiple deaf cast members whose characters communicate only in ASL (American Sign Language).
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.
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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
