Charles Best Quotes
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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I guess I crave stability.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Unless I have to, I can't take a job for the money. Unless my children are going to be out on the street, I have to be a little bit picky.
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Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
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He Manet holds up that eternal Mademoiselle Gonzales as an example; she has poise, perseverance, she can get her things finished whereas I am incapable of doing anything properly. In the meantime he Manet has started her portrait again, for the twenty-fifth time. She poses every day, and every night he rubs out the head..
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
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I do not live off canned soup.
