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.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Los Angeles

• Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Art
  • Criticism

• 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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • You
  • Dog

• There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Me

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Conflict

• 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.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Independent

• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• I love people, and the hustle.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Love
  • Hustle

• 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.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Health
  • Single

• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • May
  • Lonely
  • Often

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Promise
  • Research
  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Child
  • Find

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Same

• 'Romeo & Juliet' is still relevant and real.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Real

• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Like
  • Charity
  • Monday

• 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.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Country