Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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I am definitely a worrier.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
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One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
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I always say, my leading lady is my lola.
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People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Electrical banana Is gonna be a sudden craze Electrical banana Is bound to be the very next phase...
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Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
