Chris Gardner Quotes

I also often hear people say that the deck is stacked against them because of racism, sexism, or other oppressive 'isms.' But once you let go of the blame and excuses, you'll see that you can alter your position on your own.

Chris Gardner

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RacismPeopleBlameExcusesYouGo

The person that was closest to me growing up was my sister, who died at 19. She was an incredibly powerful girl, deeply committed to art and literature.

Jim Harrison

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I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

Jessica Biel

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As a reporter in Israel, I have interviewed hundreds of people in its intelligence and defense establishments and studied thousands of classified documents that revealed a hidden history, surprising even in the context of Israel's already fierce reputation.

Ronen Bergman

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Every striker has to have that edge. When they are not scoring, or when the team is losing, they explode.

Romelu Lukaku

LosingTeamEdgeScoringEvery

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

Monica Bellucci

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For me, Caitlyn Jenner is such a huge role model. She's really making a difference in our society by just being brave and sharing her story. People say she's not brave and courageous, but to me, she is so brave and courageous.

Jazz Jennings

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

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Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.

Debi Gliori

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The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Che Guevara

WarAngelRichWillPoorPossible

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.

Brian Dennehy

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I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as well as defeat.

Bronte Campbell

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In a gas, motion has the upper hand; the atoms are moving so fast that they have no time to enter into any sort of combination with each other: occasionally, atom must meet atom and, so to speak, each hold out vain hands to the other, but the pace is too great and, in a moment, they are far away from each other again.

William Henry Bragg

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