Jimmy Smits Quotes

Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.

Jimmy Smits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1955

Topics

GreatPeopleMeLawyerYouPlay

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

Meg Rosoff

TryingLongAttentionYouHuman

Yes, I am 100% anarchist. Anarchy, to me, is a belief that all transactions, all activity, should be voluntary. It is a peaceful philosophy of not forcing anyone to do anything and not allowing anyone else to force you to do anything.

Jeff Berwick

I AmMePhilosophyYouPeacefulYes

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

John Zorn

HappinessChildrenSayWhyTortured

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Rita Dove

ReadingThinkStrangersAliveYoung

Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.

Rod Stewart

TomorrowEndCareerListenWould

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

Ron Johnson

ChangeScienceBelieveClimate Change

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

HappinessSafetySeemHerDealing

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

Louis Zamperini

ExperienceDieDownSayKnowingGot

I don't come from money.

Christina Ricci

MoneyCome

Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.

Cilla Black

LifeLife Is AAnythingSocial Life

I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

Alice Krige

YearTelevisionAfricaNeverTaste

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Wladyslaw Reymont

FatherMotherManBrotherSolitude

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