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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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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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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The control center of your life is your attitude.
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When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
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In the past, people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
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If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
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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.
