Charles Oakley Quotes
I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
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The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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I just don't have this magnetic personality that everyone is drawn to. I don't make friends easily... I'm just not one of those people.
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Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
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If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.
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Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
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I've a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.
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Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.
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In beach volleyball, there are only two of you on the court, so it's so easy for things to go south and take everything personal.
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It's not the most exciting style of playing by any means, but it's effective. One of the things that you have to do is guard them. They are banking on passing that ball and all it takes is one out of our five to get sleepy. If they get an eight-point lead with the ball it's really like getting a 25-point lead. It's going to be a very different game for us. Our kids are going to be focused and prepared.
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I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.
