Charles Barkley Quotes

At some point, I don't want to have any obligation. And just chill out.

Charles Barkley

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Leadership

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Experience
  • Doing
  • Ugly

• I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Important
  • Like
  • Traditions

• I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Deserve
  • Big
  • Politicians

• Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History

• I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We swore to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • City

• I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.

  

  James Wolk
  • Believe
  • Character

• Everything in moderation, like calories.

  

  Jimmy Smits

• With 'Taxi Driver,' I had this eureka moment. I realized that acting could be much more than what I had been doing. I had to build a character that wasn't me.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Character

• I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life

• The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

  

  Don Kardong
  • Stress

• It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • Important
  • Brain
  • Breakfast

• Like a fierce wind roaring high up in the bare branches of trees, a wave of passion came over me, aimless but surging . . . I suppose it's lust, but it's awful and holy like thunder and lightning and the wind.

  

  Marion Milner
  • Up
  • High
  • Passion

• An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

  

  Plutarch
  • Fool

• Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Life

• There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• At some point, I don't want to have any obligation. And just chill out.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Chill