Charles Barkley Quotes
My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
-
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
-
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
-
I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
-
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
-
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
-
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
-
I love bayou life.
-
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
-
I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
-
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
-
We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
-
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
-
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
-
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
-
I don't want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.
-
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
-
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
-
My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.
-
My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.
