Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
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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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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.
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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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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
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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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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
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I know America is very nice and very good people. I'm a professional athlete. I come here. I never have a problem with somebody about my religion, about my name. I am happy. I'm always comfortable because I never do anything wrong. All the time I do something right. I follow all the rules.
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For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
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He lived with us for 24 years, ... He studied with us.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
