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Tavis Smiley
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 13
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Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.
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What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.
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Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.
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[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text a memoir, in fact.
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I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.
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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
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Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
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Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.
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I don't think I'd live anything over, even though I've made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I'm not one to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I'll take my life the way it is.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.
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Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle
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Live just because or live your life for a cause
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I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
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There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.
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Losing teaches you something
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I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.
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Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.
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