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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
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.
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If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.
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