Charles Best Quotes
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
Quotes to Explore
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Being evil is easy.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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Shrine of the mighty! can it beThat this is all remains of thee?
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
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The little birds have God for their caterer.
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One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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The Indian system of counting is probably the most successful intellectual innovation ever devised by human beings. It has been universally adopted. ...It is the nearest thing we have to a universal language.
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I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
