Chris Gardner Quotes

As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.

Chris Gardner

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LivePeopleJealousPlanLongYou

I was in Puerto Rico going to school, and it was very jarring for me. 'Traumatic' is the only way that I can say it. Kids were making fun of me: 'Oh, you're a Yankee.' And I acted out a lot. A lot. But looking back, and through a little bit of therapy, everything I am has to do with that time.

Jimmy Smits

TimeSchoolI AmFunLooking Back

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

Stephen R. George

WorkTimeWritingImpossibleStory

The FDA first began prohibiting gay and bisexual men from donating blood in the early 1980s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, when the risk from blood transfusion was just beginning to be understood. In the decades to follow, the 'lifetime ban' was left largely unchanged.

Mike Quigley

MenBeginningEarlyGayCrisisRisk

Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.

Jason Day

BagUncomfortableEveryoneClub

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

Dimebag Darrell

NightRoadWeekThreeWayOut

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

David Shields

TraditionTongueHiddenDancing

Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.

Clay Matthews III

LifeLiveTimeBeachPracticeGreen

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Philip Henry

GodUsPrayersSeldomFeltHeard

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

Sylvester Stallone

MomSomeoneYouStopWantMovies

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

Tyra Banks

JobMeFriendsWrongNobodyHire

If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?

Richard Quest

WorkCommunityMoneyGayPersonal

Any country needs to know that there are consequences when they get involved in our elections. And I think that's why it's good that the investigations are going on and we're analyzing and we're looking into all of that, and I think we need to manage it accordingly.

Nikki Haley

GoodLookingThinkConsequencesKnow

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