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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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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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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And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.
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As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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The transmission systems are still regulated.
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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.
