Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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• I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

  

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• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

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• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

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• Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.

  

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• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

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• I built Kosovo for 10 years.

  

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• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

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• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

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• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

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• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

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• One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

  

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• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

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• In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.

  

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• There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.

  

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• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

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• Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

  

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• Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.

  

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• My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

  

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• Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Trying
  • Athlete
  • Equality