Charles Barkley Quotes
We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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Some people are just right for you.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
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We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
