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To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.
Charles Barkley
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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
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Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.
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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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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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I'm never embarassed.
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I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
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I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.
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It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.
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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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Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.
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He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough
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If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
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If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job.
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I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.
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Sometimes I have to criticize guys to try to make it fun, I mean, I'm out there trying to bust other people. I want all these guys to do well, but when they do something stupid or don't play well, I try not to kill 'em, I try to make 'em laugh a little bit.
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If you're scarde to fail, you don't deserve to be successful.
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I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.
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My message is simple: take control of your life
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