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.
Samantha Bee
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
Barbara Lee
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
Iggy Pop
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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.
Patrick deWitt
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
Rachel McAdams
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
Rachel Cusk
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
Laura Marling
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
Rachel Skarsten
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
Beck
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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.
K. D. Lang
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
Larry Hovis
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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?
Harlan Coben
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I blog because I have something to say.
Eddie Huang
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The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar
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I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.
J. B. Smoove
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
Natalie Massenet
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Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.
John Calvin
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
Calista Flockhart
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
Uma Thurman
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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.
Chris Gardner