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Chris Gardner Quotes

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: February 9, 1954

Topics

Live Community People Care Living

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Work Home Live Start I Can Want

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Yourself Looking End Driving Talking

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Children Time Happy People Be Happy

People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.

Robert J. Sawyer

Good Simplicity People Evil World

What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.

Nature Political Conversation Loving

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

Talent Believe Career Actress Really

We can't just say the right thing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs: we have to do the right thing, too.

Do The Right Thing Say Right Cost

I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Feel Acting Done Now Lucky Years

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

Man Thought End Invention Date Our

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Experience Walk Happy Possibilities

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

Time Crazy Conflict Reality Create

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

Best Child Surprise Acting Three

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