Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Chris Gardner

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• 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.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • First
  • Learned
  • Theme

• 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.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Great
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• 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.

  

  Hal Sutton
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Golf

• Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Diversity
  • Europe
  • Itself

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• 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.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Evil
  • Generations
  • Morals

• Todo es nada, pero después, Después de haberlo sufrido todo.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• 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.

  

  David Harewood
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • American
  • Team
  • Chicago

• When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• 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?

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Men
  • Why
  • Training

• I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Christmas

• It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Parents

• With 'The Chi,' it's me observing my own city and also pulling some things from themes I've dealt with in my life.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Life
  • City

• Music has a way of getting inside all of us and lifting us up.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Up
  • Music
  • Lifting

• We knew we'd have some damage control.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Control
  • Damage
  • Knew

• The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

  

  Maurice Strong
  • Leadership
  • Commitment

• I think it's important to understand the concrete ways things work and to respect that. But some things shouldn't be explained, and you have to respect that, too.

  

  Astrid Berges-Frisbey
  • Work
  • Important
  • Respect

• I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Son
  • Commitment