Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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: No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply).Flutter, flutter.
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Canadians are the best, they're the best.
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Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
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For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
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I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.
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Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.
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I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.
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For a two-hour movie on a 20-day shooting schedule, it's O.K. to have an actor who's a pain in the neck.
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Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.
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I try to get seven hours of sleep every night; I always walk or bike to work; I make a point to eat well and take my vitamins; I drink tons of water; and I always spend a portion of my day at a standing desk.
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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When we started becoming friends with Prince, I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.
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The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
