Charles Barkley Quotes

Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.

Charles Barkley

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• My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Parents
  • Brother

• If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Looking
  • Shock

• Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Prejudice

• The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Great
  • Giving

• For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Bad
  • My Own
  • Posture

• I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Soul

• I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• Never give a sucker an even break.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Never
  • Give
  • Even

• It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Name
  • News
  • Jazz

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead -' and as I looked up into Graham Mill's gaze I saw that he knew who, before I could say.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Up

• I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Girl

• The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Question

• Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Practice

• There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • India
  • Coming

• What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • World
  • Quality
  • Communication

• Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.

  

  Charles Barkley