Charles Barkley Quotes
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I have always loathed working out.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.
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Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.
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They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
