Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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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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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.
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Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
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You're more interested in a political message than you are in solving the problem.
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'Do you know a cure for me?' 'Why yes,' he said, 'I know a cure for everything. Salt water.' 'Salt water?' I asked him. 'Yes,' he said, 'in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.'
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
