Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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What Obamacare does is decreases choices and drives up cost.
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Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.
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Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.
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I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.
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Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
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I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.
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The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
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China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world.
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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The tragedy unfolding in Zimbabwe is driven by one man's ruthless campaign to hang on to power whatever the cost to others in the process.
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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.
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I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
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Nothing's free and only the cheaper things can be bought with money.
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The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
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It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
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If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.
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Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.
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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
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Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
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I was late once and it cost me $50,000. I figure it was cheaper to wear two watches.
