Charles Barkley Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?
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I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.
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I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
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I document my life and archive the things that are important and remind me of what my specific energy brings to the world.
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I am a big pro-choice guy.
