Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Kate Winslet -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller -
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Natan Sharansky -
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Nana Mouskouri -
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian -
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
Samantha Stosur
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
Damon Lindelof -
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley -
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton -
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone -
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke -
Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
Washed Out -
When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
Walt Mossberg -
Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies.
Naomi Klein -
I think I really benefited from going to college.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar