Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I'm almost evangelical about this, ... I'm burning all renewable energy that comes from New Hampshire.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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Harmony is next to Godliness
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
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As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
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I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
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I need to just be myself, express myself.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.
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What I'm angry about, and I've gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize they can get something for nothing and they won't settle for anything else. There's something called a Schedule F. If I work for a Schedule F contract that basically means I'm doing the movie for free because by the time I pay all my commissions and taxes there's barely anything left for me to live on. This whole notion that you do work that you love for very little money and then you go out and do something you hate to make money.
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I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
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Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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When I like something, I thoroughly pursue it. That hasn't changed since I was in high school.
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Always, always pursue happiness.
