Tavis Smiley Quotes
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.
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People tend to pay too little attention to history - the history of Silicon Valley and American business - and think they're the first people to come across a problem.
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'Legend of the Drunken Master' was my favorite.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
