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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Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
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Major labels have always been around our band since the beginning, and we just waited. We knew we had to do some things, and we needed to grow as a band before we made that step. We needed to do it our way and not do it how it works for other people.
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For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
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Maybe because I'm a Taurus, I like to watch plants grow.
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One of the reasons I love acting is because I'm so interested in other people's lives, and I often incorporate things I hear or observe into my work. I've become a bit of a 'person addict,' and so I like brushing up against lots of different characters.
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We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.
