Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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Gary Cooper turned out to be the surprise of my young life. He was so convincing with his stuttering, stammering awkward little boy manners. When the action called for Dr. Wassell to kiss me, I got all set for a bashful boy kiss. Well, it was like holding a hand grenade and not being able to get rid of it! I was left breathless.
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People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.
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Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.
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We always want to see each other do well. And I think we all want to win. As competitive as you are, you always want to win.
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I was writing rap at 12 years old and began writing songs as a 20-year-old. I think I wrote my first song in the winter of 2008-2009, when I was in Buenos Aires. I was writing about growing up and my boys back home.
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I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
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If you're going to be a vegetarian, limit yourself to food from a place you can go to in two hours and just eat that.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it; so was my brother.
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Believe it or not, I don't own a TV. Crazy huh? I'm not a big movie-goer either. I just feel like I'm watching work. I am always outside and couldn't care less about what's on TV these days.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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There is no plan B for passion
