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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Your job as an actor is to stay employed.
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I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.
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You can't break what's broken already.
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I love 'Latina'! You guys have always been so supportive of me and my career. Now I have my family, and it's just awesome.
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The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.
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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.
