Charles Barkley Quotes
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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Maybe when my kids are grown up, I can go back to Broadway. It would be great someday, I suppose.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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With us, people caught on to something on our third album, and that will never be repeated. Basically, I don't really have any complaints about the way that Beach House has grown. I feel like we're still in control of what we're doing, and it's a great time in our existence.
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First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.
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I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
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To put it in layman's terms, crazy is crazy. And crazy will find a way to do something crazy. Racist is racist. And racist people will find a way to project their racism onto the world.
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Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.
