Charles Best Quotes

Imagine someone with $10 finding a classroom project that speaks to them personally, seeing where their money is going, and realizing that they don't need to be a millionaire to make a difference.

Charles Best

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MoneyMake A DifferenceSomeoneNeed

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

Jim DeMint

ChangePeopleDirectionCountryKnow

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.

Joaquin Castro

EducationJusticeDriveBookBecome

Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

Jeff Ament

LifeWorkFriendMusicBestMe

Every game in the NFL is important.

Roger Goodell

GameImportantNFLEvery

The violin sings.

Joshua Bell

ViolinSings

The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.

Christopher Guest

WorkTimeMoviesWayOverOut

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

Arnold Palmer

BusinessYouBodyWantYour Body

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the camaraderie of the restaurant business. I loved not having to go to an office. I loved making people happy.

Anne Burrell

BusinessAgeHappyPeopleLovedGo

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.

Arthur Smith

FindTryChangesStudentsBrains

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

Winona LaDuke

SchoolMeCoolThoughtGoOut

When I started acting, I hoped I could make some kind of positive contribution to this world. When I get a letter from some kid in Nebraska saying that, prior to Han, nobody wanted to be his friend because Asians weren't cool if they weren't into martial arts - Now he's accepted and recognized as a human being. That's pretty awesome, right?

Sung Kang

PositiveFriendCoolWorldSaying

Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.

Seth Shostak

SomeoneTelevisionFindWillOver

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