Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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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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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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My life began with Ronnie.
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I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
