Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
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My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
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A rusty bolt is the most difficult to withdraw; but once removed, though replaced, it will never hold securely.
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
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People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.
