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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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Your life is a reflection of how you think.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
