Charles Barkley Quotes
Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I love working with women.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. It became obvious to me that Russia couldn't live without computers. I think I worked this out a year before anyone else. I started looking for people who could help import them.
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.
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Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
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Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.
