Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?Chris Gardner
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice -
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
Ted Sarandos -
I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
La'Porsha Renae -
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
Edmund Phelps -
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
Jack Vance
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
Jackie Robinson -
The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
J. D. Vance -
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela -
Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.
Randee Heller -
I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
Cam Gigandet -
The right reading for this is the one I'm giving.
Orson Welles
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I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.
Billy Crystal -
I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.
CeeLo Green -
In my career, I've always felt like all great things came at once, and when something goes bad, it always seems that everything else seems to start going bad.
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum -
I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
Jodie Foster -
Music in this film is a very important part.
Maximilian Schell -
There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.
Divyanka Tripathi
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It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Benjamin E. Mays -
Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
John Oliver -
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
Garry Trudeau -
I am someone who is so grateful and practice gratitude every single day.
Bishop Briggs -
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken -
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?
Chris Gardner