Charles Barkley Quotes

If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

Charles Barkley

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• I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Necessary

• There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • God
  • Right

• My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Change

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Time
  • Art
  • Sense

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• Liam Smith was a resilient fighter. He was tough, has a lot of heart. He thinks before he attacks.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Heart
  • Tough
  • Fighter

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all Constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to to that legitimately. If it is necessary that slavery should fall that the Republic may continue its existence, let slavery go.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • May
  • War
  • Fall

• Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Violence

• For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

  

  Livy
  • War
  • Hope

• But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Violence

• Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Power
  • Help
  • Religious

• A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • World
  • Success
  • Society

• I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • She
  • Character
  • Parents

• I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.

  

  Chris Kilmore Incubus
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Mystery

• Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Long

• I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that's not serving Democrats, that's not serving Republicans, that's not serving anybody.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Trying
  • American

• If I'm going to be straightforward, like I always try to be, I know guys are going to come back at me sometimes.

  

  Charles Barkley