Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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The surprising thing is that so many teenage cancer novels are very good. John Green's 'The Fault in Our Stars,' recently published by Penguin, was voted Time Magazine's book of the year in 2012 ahead of Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith.
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You cannot be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, and the perfect actor all at the same time.
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Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.
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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.
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Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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I remember the first time going to St. Jude. I didn't like going there because the children were ill, and it just broke my heart. It makes you test your religion when you see something like that. But the Lord doesn't want just old people. You know, He wants some young people, too, and good people. He takes care of them. He takes care of them.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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I found out my baby was visiting Julie Chen a lot, from 'The Talk', and my nanny was just like, 'Oh yeah, that's Julie. We pop in on her all the time.'
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The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
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Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you'll be surprised at where you might get to.
