Charles Best Quotes

It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

Charles Best

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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Me

• The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • Kids
  • High

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• That's my suggestion for kids who want to act, by the way: Make sure it's really your choice, get out of it when it stops being fun, and get an education.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Education

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Good
  • Great
  • Done

• In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Child
  • Innocent

• I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Family
  • Money
  • Kids

• I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Science

• Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.

  

  Camila Alves
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Kids
  • Today

• Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Pretty

• When I filmed my episodes, the show hadn't aired yet, so there was no 'Glee' pandemonium. It was still untested.

  

  Kenneth Choi

• I think a lot of people are getting more serious about how to do the most good, but there is no road map. I'm hoping I can offer an example.

  

  Mohnish Pabrai
  • People
  • Example
  • Getting

• I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Good
  • Men
  • Job

• I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Control

• Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Fun
  • Today
  • Creativity

• It just felt wrong that the kids I was teaching didn't have the same access to materials that I did when I was a student.

  

  Charles Best
  • Kids