Charles Barkley Quotes
That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Being evil is easy.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.
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Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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Zamajobe is great. She's a terrific singer from South Africa.
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That's one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're conservative, you're liberal. And that's really unfair.
