"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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Source : Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.76, Random House

Charles Barkley

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“One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.”
“Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown”
“If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.”
“You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2014
“The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.”

Source : John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“If it's one thing I know well is how to get my grind on.”
“Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.”
“There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada.”

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