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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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
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Offensively we were not making the extra pass and not getting a nice, smooth transition look. We were not attacking or executing our patterns. It wasn't Villanova. It's just the way we play.
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I'll play if I'm playing well. But if I'm playing half-crappy and wear myself out, I'll take time off.
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Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.
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A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)
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Center is a very tough position to play.
