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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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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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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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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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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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
