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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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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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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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 love my boys. I love watching them growing up. I love seeing them develop, and I'm always looking forward to seeing what they're going to become and what they're going to be interested in later in life.
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Local casting is just something I love doing.
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We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.
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My mother and Ethel Kennedy became good friends and worked together on a number of causes they had shared with their husbands. They together co-chaired 'A Time to Remember' to mobilize a movement for gun control.
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It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
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I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.
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The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
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We need to understand how destructive emotions affect us and constructive emotions can help us, so that we can maintain our peace of mind.
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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.
