Jimmy Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
-
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
-
I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
-
The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
-
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
-
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
-
Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
-
Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
-
Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
-
Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
-
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
-
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
-
I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
-
I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
-
More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.
-
It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
-
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course. A lot of guys can go out and hit a golf ball, but they have no idea how to manage what they do with the ball. I've won as many golf tournaments hitting the ball badly as I have hitting the ball well.
-
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
-
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
-
There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think.
-
Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.
-
The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
-
"I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century."
-
I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.
