Charles Best Quotes
I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.
Quotes to Explore
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
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That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!
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A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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I've met with titans of Silicon Valley because they're investing in our national expansion. I've had lunch with Claire Danes because she sees DonorsChoose.org as the best way to help students in public schools. I would never, ever rub shoulders with such people if I had followed the typical career path in investment banking or whatever.
