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.
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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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I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.
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Prayer is far-reaching in its influence and worldwide in its effects. It affects all men, affects them everywhere, and affects them in all things. It touches man's interest in time and eternity. It lays hold upon God and moves Him to interfere in the affairs of earth. It moves the angels to minister to men in this life. It restrains and defeats the devil in his schemes to ruin man. Prayer goes everywhere and lays its hand upon everything.
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Yeah, I've done Jim Breuer's radio show a couple times, and I heard from Larry the Cable Guy when I got 'Mike & Molly,' wishing me congratulations. I'm always the last one to the party, man. But that's okay. I got there.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.
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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.
