Charles Barkley Quotes
Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
Quotes to Explore
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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I've always taken direction pretty well.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.
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The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
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When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.
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I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.
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When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
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Fans have this perception that they can say anything to you because you are a celebrity.
