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.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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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.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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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.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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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?
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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.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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I definitely know I'm going to be working a lot more with my foundation when it comes to developing the kids in Jamaica.
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Oakland, by far, is really gorgeous; it still has these pockets that are really dangerous. Certain things are kind of normal. I think kids out there can be tested in a way where his right of passage ties into a bit of violence and how that has become these markers in masculinity and you being kind of validated after having to pass through things.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven't hung most with recently.
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
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I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
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There are a lot of young swimming fans that are on Instagram, so I try to respond or post things that they like.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I'm pretty busy.
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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.
