Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.

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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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There were many times when I could have gone down the path of being a child star, which I know can be bad; I think, especially in L.A., it's easy to get caught up in that life.
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It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
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American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
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Many-headed multitude.
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The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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I think grooming is definitely undervalued by men. We all expect women to be fully groomed, which they do. But I also think it's just as important for a man to look fresh and clean.
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Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.
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There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.
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I'm not expressing anything. I'm presenting people moving.
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Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.
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Still a dreamer, yet more of a realist than ever before, I knew this was my time to sail. On the horizon I saw the shining future, as before. The difference now was that I felt the wind at my back. I was ready.