J. B. Smoove Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I've got to win every race.
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
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It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
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I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
