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.
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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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.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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When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
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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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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.
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One fan sent me one tooth, so I made a necklace out of it. But then I found a bunch of my baby teeth, and started realizing I would love to wear a piece of my fans' bodies on me.
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Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
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Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common.
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I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.
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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.
