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Jimmy Smits

"In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community."

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"In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community."

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"I never took my SAT's. I never applied to college. I moved right out here and jumped into the thick of things. Whether that was the smart move or not, I'm sitting here talking to you now, so it paid off."

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"I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly."

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"It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush."

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"We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dropped out before I even dropped in. Months later they were still asking what had happened to me, not realising that I was on a UK tour."

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"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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"Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands."

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"Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world."

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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."

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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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