Charles Best Quotes

I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

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• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Nice

• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Always

• I have nothing to hide.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Nothing
  • Hide

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Detail

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Human
  • Better
  • Need

• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Shows
  • Revenge
  • Game of Thrones

• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Fame

• Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Know
  • Belief
  • Inside

• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Wife
  • Monogamy
  • Western custom

• Paradoxically, I think working at an Internet magazine intensifies the attraction of beautiful printed objects.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Beautiful

• Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don’t know, and we don’t really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Children
  • Real
  • Help

• I think there are really are some public schools, incredibly successful public schools, that are inculcating a real educational ethic in their students.

  

  Charles Best
  • Real