J. B. Smoove Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.
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I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that there is, in my life, a fundamental sense of conflict between something that I am calling 'Buddhism' and my creative impulse.
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We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.
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This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
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The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion
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My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
