Chris Gardner Quotes

I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

Chris Gardner

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I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Jill Scott

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People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

Stephanie Szostak

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I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Tori Amos

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Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.

Travis Bradberry

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I lived in Alabama for a while during the dying days of the Continental Wrestling Federation. I lived in Montgomery and traveled all over Alabama.

Mick Foley

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I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

Louise Brown

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I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Desmond Tutu

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If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

Christian Louboutin

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I was sad to leave 'Downton,' but I will always remember it fondly, as they did me a lot of favours. I owe them a lot.

Thomas Howes

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Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

Richie Havens

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I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

Richard Linklater

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I grew up very strongly with this sense of time being circular: that it constantly returned upon itself.

Richard Flanagan

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