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 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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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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We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.
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I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.
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If we do not resolve the euro crisis, we will all pay the price. And if we do resolve it, we will all benefit, particularly German taxpayers and savers.
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It's funny, but on a set there's a pecking order. There's a caste system, you know? It goes from the star down to the extra. That includes the crew as well. I've never liked that.
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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.
