Keith Best Quotes
Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
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The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the faculty. By professionalization I mean the tendency of faculty members to have Ph.D.'s in their academic specialties, and for these specialties to be ever more narrowly defined. The higher-rated schools may have chief executives in residence or retired execs on three-year teaching fellowships, but the days when most faculty members had considerable prior experience as businessmen or women - those days are mostly over.
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Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in the game. You can devise a foolproof defensive strategy and prepare your players for every possible eventuality. But if the players don’t have a sense of oneness as a group, your efforts won’t pay off. And the bond that unites a team can be so fragile, so elusive.
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Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
