Charles Barkley Quotes
What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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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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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.
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But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
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Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.
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I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.
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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
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What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.
