Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
