Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
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I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
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Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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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'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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As for indie writers, a lot of them don't realize that they're in the hurry-up-and-wait business, not the wait-and-hurry-up business. They work really, really, really hard at goosing the first-month sales, and then getting disappointed when those sales either go down or never happen in the first place.
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Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.
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When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I was born in England, but India is the only place I feel at home.
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When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
