Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

Chris Gardner

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• Welfare
• Fraud
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• I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Earth

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • True
  • Patriotism
  • Rebellion

• The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • Woman

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Circumstances
  • Will

• As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Think
  • Song
  • Inside

• When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Basketball

• I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sweet
  • Try
  • Fat

• I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Work
  • Study
  • Seriously

• Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Why
  • May
  • Jesus

• I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Live
  • Strong

• My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • Mom
  • Shoes

• 'Muppets' was very much an exercise in anti-CG and the anti-effects world. It was very much in camera. We wanted to create a world where tangible puppets walked around and talked to each other. You could touch them. You could meet them.

  

  James Bobin
  • World
  • Exercise

• It isn't always simple when America discovers you at 11 years old. Suddenly, it's not just homework that you're responsible for. Your name becomes a hashtag, and if you're lucky, you might even get invited on 'Ellen.'

  

  Marley Dias
  • America
  • Simple

• If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Book
  • Ideas
  • Drink

• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart

• And He [God] and you are two things of such a kind that if you really get into any kind of touch with Him you will, in fact, be humble--delightedly humble, feeling the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Feeling

• No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Mother
  • Events
  • Welfare