Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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Study first, play afterwards.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
