Charles Barkley Quotes
If I screw up, I'm gonna say, 'You know what? I really screwed up.' That's all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That's just the way it works.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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If I screw up, I'm gonna say, 'You know what? I really screwed up.' That's all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That's just the way it works.
