Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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We've only explored about five percent of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there, fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways that we can't even yet imagine.
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I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.
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I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
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Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.
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Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh voices continue to emerge.
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I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
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Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
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Pulp paperbacks have always provided a training ground for men, Some of them went on to become respected authors - Dean Koontz, Nelson DeMille and Martin Cruz Smith, for example. Why couldn't a woman?
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I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.
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It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.
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With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.
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Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.
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I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
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You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
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As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.
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The Oldfields of the future are beyond hearing; they are shut up in the factories and the workshops, leading a rackety and mechanical existence, to the damage of their bodies and the peril of their souls, for the sake of an extra pound or so a week, which they promptly spend on mental or physical narcotics.
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I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
