Charles Barkley Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.
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I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.
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I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.
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I'd love to see an openly gay player, a really, really good gay player come out.
