Charles Barkley Quotes
It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.

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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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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.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.
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You should try and fail and not be afraid. Get up again.
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Movies, as I grew up loving them, were always about something.
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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
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It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.