Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

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• Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

  

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• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

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• This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

  

  Origen
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• I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

  

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• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

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• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
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• Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
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• People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

  

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• It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

  

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• The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

  

  Vernon Howard
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• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

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• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

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• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  

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• In sport, there is always room for improvement. Whenever I see my innings against the West Indies or Australia, I think, 'Maybe, I could have done this better or should have changed that.' See, cricket is a skill game, and one can always improve upon the impact one has on an innings.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

  

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• We do not understand the rationale of a measure that appears scientifically disproportionate to the epidemiological trend.

  

  Luca Zaia
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• My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.

  

  Maria Shriver
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• All that time that we spend tweeting our thoughts and emotions to our next of kin, we could be writing the great American novel, starting a business, or just living.

  

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• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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