Charles Best Quotes
If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
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Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.
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I find the business world hard.
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I've always paid attention to religion … because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.
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If we can show the world that there are students in all sorts of communities who don't have the material they need for a great education, that will be the first major step to doing something about it.
