Charles Oakley Quotes

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Charles Oakley

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• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Memories

• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Heart
  • You
  • Break

• Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Military
  • Week
  • Broke

• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Emotional

• Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Time
  • Back
  • Broke

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• A bowler can make or break a chap.

  

  John Newton
  • Break
  • Bowler
  • Chap

• I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Great
  • School
  • Black

• I don't have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Certain
  • Break
  • Combination

• If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Heart
  • Break
  • Battering

• The torrent of the reaching shade Broke shadow into all its parts, What then had been of shadow made Found exigence in fits and starts...

  

  Allen Tate
  • Shadow
  • Broke
  • Reaching

• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Universe
  • Break
  • Adversity

• It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • Death
  • Economy
  • Break

• Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Poetry

• There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Break

• It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Break
  • Give

• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  

  David Stockman
  • War
  • Advice
  • Chinese

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Chance

• I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Believe
  • Long
  • History

• The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Live
  • Moments
  • See

• If it ain't broke, don't break it.

  

  Charles Oakley
  • Break
  • Broke