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 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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I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.
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Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.
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Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.
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I played basketball when I was little because it was fun for me. It still is now. I just love it. I have a passion for it.
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The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.
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There is no plan B for passion
