Charles Barkley Quotes
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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My first celeb crush was Hanson. I loved all three of them. My sister and I would always fight, and whenever they would come on the TV, we would always give them a kiss on the TV. And I also had a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Every time he would come on the screen, he was like my boyfriend. I was such a nerd like that.
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Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last fifty years... and they are still poor.
