J. B. Smoove Quotes
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
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Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
