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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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There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.
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I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said 'Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.' And I said, 'Mom, I'm rich.'
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I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination.
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When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret I'm glad it's coming out.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.
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Adrian Dantley is a guy that I looked at . . . on how to maneuver my body around.
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I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.
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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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It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.
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Hakeem couldn't kick your ass cause you were too close, kissing his!
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There's no medical term for what I've got.
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I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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