Charles Barkley Quotes

I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.

Charles Barkley

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• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Never

• In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Different
  • Different People

• Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

  

  Mako
  • Day
  • Fighting
  • Stereotypes

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  

  Jack Kroll
  • People
  • Joy
  • Artist

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Risk
  • Run

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Love
  • Parents

• Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Too Much
  • Authenticity

• I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Nice

• The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Reality

• As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Man
  • Fine
  • Sounds

• The path to diversity begins with supporting, mentoring, and sponsoring diverse women and men to become leaders and entrepreneurs.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Path

• They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Group
  • Illness
  • Improve

• We know that as a Christian athlete, people are watching, and so we want to be the best example we can be and show that we are different - that Christ has changed our lives.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Character
  • Gospel

• Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Cabinets
  • Fingerprints
  • Grime

• I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Women
  • College
  • Basketball