J. B. Smoove Quotes

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

J. B. Smoove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 16, 1966

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The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

Jerry Saltz

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Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.

Maurice Strong

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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Anna Chlumsky

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Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Anna Deavere Smith

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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

Andy Grove

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If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.

Robert Dallek

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Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

Robyn

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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Robert Walpole

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Even if I see myself playing very well in one thing, I try to improve to do it better and better.

Mohamed Salah

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American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.

Jay Parini

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But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

Donna Dixon

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You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

Christina Romer

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