Tavis Smiley Quotes
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?Tavis Smiley
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
Sally Yates -
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
W. Clement Stone -
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
Laila Ali -
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner
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I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas -
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Kary Mullis -
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
Tatyana Ali -
You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
Vera Farmiga -
I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
Hannah Simone -
It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
Kaley Cuoco -
Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
Najib Razak -
At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that.
Laura Dern
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The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
Janet Mock -
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
P. J. O'Rourke -
he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I left the stage because I thought I had to shit, but then I lost the feeling.
Peter Steele -
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Tavis Smiley