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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Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.
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John McCain may pay hundreds of dollars for his shoes, but we're the ones who will pay for his flip-flops.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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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.
