Charles Barkley Quotes
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I try to stay focused.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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All of us grow.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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I had no interest at all in opera or singing. I saw my fellow students struggling with their scores, laboring to memorize operatic roles, and I thought, 'That's not for me!'
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TV is tricky. You can do some stuff and people will tune out and never tune back in. It's sort of like putting a bad taste in somebody's mouth. Some people may not ever tune in again. And then there's some people that will tune in just to tune in and see what's gon' happen.
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If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together.
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Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.
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Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
