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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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Donna Grant

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."

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Donna Grant

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."

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Donna Grant

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

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Donna Grant

"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"

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Donna Grant

"I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!"

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Donna Grant

"Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?"

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Donna Grant

"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated."

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Donna Grant

"My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So... you're black.'"

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Donna Grant

"From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford."

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Jimmy Smits
"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."

Acting

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Jimmy Smits
"I like the gypsy aspect of this business."

Business

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Jimmy Smits
"I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others."

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Jimmy Smits
"When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system."

Life

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Jimmy Smits
"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer."

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Jimmy Smits
"You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist."

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Jimmy Smits
"I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much."

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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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Jimmy Smits
"Celebrity hits like a bomb."

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Jimmy Smits
"I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment."

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