Charles Barkley Quotes

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Charles Barkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1963

Topics

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There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.

Jim Hightower

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Conflicting views and contrasting ideas are the essence of all great debates throughout history, from the Greeks to the Oxford Union Debating Society. Today, we turn to television for the creative clash of ideas on matters that touch our lives.

John J. McLaughlin

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

Matthew Walker

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When I go on a holiday to a tropical place, I'll spray tan before I go.

Michael Douglas

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I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

Amy Nuttall

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If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

Ron Stallworth

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Few things are more painful than being a successful writer born in a small country with an impenetrable language.

Michael Korda

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I'm all for diversity - but diversity for deserving people.

Lubna Olayan

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I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.

Dick Dale

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'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

Dick Van Dyke

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