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Only poor people go to jail.
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do.
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I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool.
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People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.
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I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.
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I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.
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If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
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Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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