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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Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.
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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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I was always opinionated.
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There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.
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When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
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Unfortunately, unlike when my parents grew up, you can't turn social media off. It's not like you can go home and avoid the bully's wrath. It follows you everywhere and is 24/7, and especially in the cases of assault that go viral. I mean, your worst nightmare is literally on the internet forever and that is a reality that very few people understand.
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Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
