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.
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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.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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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.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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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.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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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.
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I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Please don't applaud. It may irritate your neighbour.
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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.
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More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament.
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You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
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Liquidity problems can occur in central clearing, even if all counterparties have the financial resources to meet their obligations, if they are unable to convert those resources into cash quickly enough.
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If you make a film about a pig farmer in Wales and you are a huge hit as the pig farmer's wife, the next thing is you'll be asked to do a film about a sheep farmer in Scotland.
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I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.
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When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
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Those who refuse to change and to modify are refusing to be recipients of the anointing.
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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.
