Tavis Smiley Quotes

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

Tavis Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1964

Topics

PeopleControlPovertyYouWealth

When it's the caliber of fight that Canelo Alvarez and Liam Smith is, that's a big deal, and what I've tried to do since we built this stadium is have the great sport events.

Jerry Jones

GreatFightEventsBigStadiumDeal

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Joel Osteen

MePressureCopyTryMoldTried

You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.

Jenson Button

CarStrongYouBuildLegsNeed

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

John Madden

PeopleMeGameCoachingKnowingOut

Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage.

John Hurt

LightEndYouEnd Of The TunnelSee

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time; to say 'high Anglo-Catholic' would be a real English understatement.

John Hurt

TimeSchoolSayFirstRealHigh

To do or not to do... that is the question.

Jeff Rich

Question

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

John Sununu

ChanceDebtQuestionEveryoneAnswer

The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

WorkPeopleMeWork EthicYoung

All oppression creates a state of war.

Simone de Beauvoir

WarOppressionStateCreates

There was a period in my life when I was very young that I wrote a sonnet a day just to learn concision in writing.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LifeDayWritingLearnMy LifeJust

Just over 800 people were gathered around the cooking stage, all eager to learn about my five-minute flavor cooking. The demonstration had to be done right then and there, in front of everyone.

Rocco DiSpirito

CookingPeopleLearnDoneRight

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