Charles Vest Quotes

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Charles Vest

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• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Thank You
  • Be kind

• I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Look

• Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Book
  • Relationship

• Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Amazing

• During war, the laws are silent.

  

  Quintus Tullius Cicero
  • War
  • Laws
  • Silent

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Think
  • Freedom
  • Slavery

• Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Power
  • Sea
  • Fruit

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

  

  Mal Peet
  • People
  • Young
  • Lovely

• The conviction that freedom is a universal desire is not the property of any political camp. ... Yet those who hold it remain a precious few, outnumbered many times over by the skeptics who don't.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Water

• Please don't applaud. It may irritate your neighbour.

  

  Edward Heath
  • May

• I’m quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that the need to intervene in Iraq was a more immediate one than some believed - were I’m sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don’t think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don’t think it has been established that any lies were told.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Lies

• More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Done

• I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

  

  Alex Ebert
  • Up
  • Music

• Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Way
  • Pieces
  • Grew

• Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Mood

• The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Friends
  • Christian

• Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

  

  Anupam Kher
  • School
  • Drama

• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  

  Charles Vest