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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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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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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My dad would take me deer hunting with him, which was pretty traumatic - 'Bambi' was one of my favorite movies.
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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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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Noah's daughter is different from the girls of 'Suburgatory.' She goes to Brown, so she's in college, and she's very smart. And his wife is very much a very strong woman. She's certainly in charge at his house. She's Dallas's polar opposite.
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Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
