Charles Best Quotes
You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
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Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.
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It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
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I'm not a natural joiner.
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Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
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Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of otherness. Red is the colour of blood and danger.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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The jihadists of ISIS wish to go back to what they see as a more pure form of Islam from the time of the Prophet and his companions. They believe in a literal interpretation of the Koran.
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Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
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People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
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The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
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When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.
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You have to wade through tons of 'no's' to get one 'yes,' and you can't let it go to your head when you get that yes.
