J. B. Smoove Quotes
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
