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TAVIS SMILEY In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school. TAVIS SMILEY This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our ... TAVIS SMILEY I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets tr... TAVIS SMILEY This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, ... TAVIS SMILEY History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to ... TAVIS SMILEY This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a ... TAVIS SMILEY When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the ... TAVIS SMILEY How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do ... 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I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an i... TAVIS SMILEY The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change... TAVIS SMILEY SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON SMILEY BLANTON Say if you have a high-end Cadillac, you'll pay basic insurance of about $1,200 -- so 10% of that wi... BRIAN SMILEY There are about 1,400 out there right now. BRIAN SMILEY Overall, there's nearly 2,000 inspection stations in the province of Manitoba, they know exactly wha... BRIAN SMILEY If a government safety [inspection] is being carried out, they're expected to follow that handbook, ... BRIAN SMILEY We expected to have five in the finals and five champs. BRIAN SMILEY He has become more of a man. You can see him competing with focused energy. He's going after it like... BRIAN SMILEY It's been a decent year. BRIAN SMILEY That's what we've been looking for. 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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. 
It is a lie. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
The river of knowledge has no depth. 
Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken o... 
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... 
The idea that there’s good and evil knowledge . . . well, that’s strictly a religious point of v... 
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... 
Life Is a Misconception. 
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion ... 
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he ha... 
An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that... 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
To be, or not to be: what a question! 
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... 
The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, c... 
The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of th... 
There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... 
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
Be encouraged. Hold your head up high and know God is in control and has a plan for you. Instead of ... 
The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be re... 
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn... 
We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can b... 
Only the strong will remain, all the weak will be consumed by fire 
There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wro... 
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
Your universe is not out there. You create it every moment and every day with your thoughts, ideas, ... 
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... 
But with regard to incomposites, what is being or not being, and truth or falsity? A thing of this s... 
The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, ... 
This is your fault. I'm going to kill you. And all the cake is gone.
The secret of my success is my hairspray. 
Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. 
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. 
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. 
Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriag... 
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t... 
A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected f... 
If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger. 
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. 
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever... 
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... 
I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don&#... 
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. 
At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. 
Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome... 
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 
One man's style must not be the rule of another's. 
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and i... 
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. 
Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics. 
You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. 
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You'... 
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying... 
Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ... 
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re... 
The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ... 
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... 
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line... 
I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that. 
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a... 
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori... 
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... 