Charles Barkley Quotes
For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
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For some reason, we're brainwashed to think if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.
