Charles Barkley Quotes
When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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I like engineering, but I love the creative input.
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I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.
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the idea of movement.. ..just transferred from the Nude Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912 into a bicycle wheel Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17.
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When I get on TV, I'm going to be talking about a silly basketball game, and I'm going to be having a lot of fun doing it. But I'm very aware of all the social stuff going on.
