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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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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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
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I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there.
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I'm waiting for the candidate who says, 'I'm keeping things exactly the way they are. I like it this way.'
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Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.
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New York, without a doubt, is my favorite city in the world.
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Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
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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.
