Chris Gardner Quotes

I initially moved to San Francisco to become a research associate for one of the top young heart surgeons in the country. Everything that I learned in that position is that skills, talent, and expertise are transferable.

Chris Gardner

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HeartTalentResearchCountryYoung

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

John Muir

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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.

Angus Deaton

FocusProgressCompetitionNeedEven

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

Ana Ivanovic

ConfidencePastMeChoicesRight

I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

Steve Israel

WashingtonPossibleTryAlwaysGoing

Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

Stephen Graham Jones

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Growing up as a singer, and a cast member, and now as an adult, a songwriter, I get the luxury of choosing the kinds of songs that I want to sing, because I'll write, you know, hundreds of songs. Even though only 12 appear on the album. That's 12 that I've chosen to sing of my catalog.

Jason Mraz

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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But the genetic link was not intact there, so I wound up going into business. But I love to write, still. I'm not a great writer, but I enjoy it.

Anne M. Mulcahy

LoveBusinessGreatEnjoyWriteUp

I wasn't put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a plus-size model; I was put on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham.

Ashley Graham

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You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

Todd Haynes

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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Thomas Fuller

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When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Rosemary Clooney was so pretty. When I was, like, nine, I would tell people, 'You know who I kind of look like? Rosemary Clooney.'

Tina Fey

PeopleThoughtLovedYouLookWhite

Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.

Marine Le Pen

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