Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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It's a really scary thing, having your dreams come true and seeing everything you ever wanted happening, getting the attention for it and then not knowing how to handle it properly.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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I love doing kids' films.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still leaves 15 percent of the cases that occur in middle- or upper-class families, usually associated with home renovations. People are sanding paint, removing banisters, cleaning up windowsills, and they don't realize that they're spewing lead dust around in the house. And then the kids get it.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.
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Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran's nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.
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Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
