Charles Best Quotes

Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

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• I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Different
  • Career

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Individual

• I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Women
  • Community
  • Health

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• A secret is a secret in my mind.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Mind
  • Secret

• It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Rock

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children - being there for them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Children
  • Crazy

• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Different
  • Control
  • Best

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • God
  • Daily
  • Strength

• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • First
  • Year
  • Open

• One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Best
  • Limit

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Ocean

• Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Spring

• You almost have no choice but to continue to innovate because if you don't, you are likely to atrophy rather than expand.

  

  David Carey

• It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Heart
  • Speak
  • Taste

• Albertus Magnus ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.

  

  Georgius Agricola
  • Doctrine
  • Chemists
  • Quicksilver

• Our ideological dilemmas won't ever be solved by machines.

  

  Charles Best