Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.
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Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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The stage is near and dear to me.
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But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
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My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
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I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.
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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.
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How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?
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An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.
