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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I don't put nothing out if it's not ready.
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Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate.
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Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
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Play your part creatively in all the strugglesOf men of your time, therebyHelping, with the seriousness of study and the cheerfulness of knowledgeTo turn the struggle into common experience andJustice into a passion.
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When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
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There is no plan B for passion
