J. B. Smoove Quotes
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Yes, our band will change and evolve, but we want to establish the reality of what this band truly sounds like.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.
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J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
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You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
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I've only lost my temper three times in my whole life.
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
