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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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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Regardless of what Einstein had come up with, it is very possible that a few hundred years into the future some scientist comes up with something that they have spotted in the universe that we have no idea exists today.
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I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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Once you absorb the maths, it’s all perfectly clear.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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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.
