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.Chris Gardner
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk -
I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
Maisie Williams -
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
Daniel Boone -
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
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.
Maggie Carey -
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener
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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?
Dan Deacon -
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.
Walter O'Brien -
Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben -
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.
Alex Wolff -
It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.
Douglas Hurd -
American League teams don't bunt very often. National League teams bunt a lot.
George Brett
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Many-headed multitude.
Philip Sidney -
The violence of beast on beast is read As natural law, but upright man Seeks his divinity by inflicting pain.
Derek Walcott -
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
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.
Lewis Hamilton -
Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.
Brian Tracy -
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. Henry
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I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.
Studs Terkel -
The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.
Eddy Sims -
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.
Chris Gardner