Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I am not as simple as I look.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.
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He don't look the sort of fellow I like; but he's got money and he comes here, and he's good looking, - and therefore he'll be a success.
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I ain't no angel, I still got a few more dances with the devil.I'm cleaning up my act little by little.I'm getting there. I can finally stand the man in the mirror I see.I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.
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Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.
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'Wait, Wait' has been great. The humor is there, and we get to do a lot of action.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.
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Claim ownership of your dreams
