Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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I've never been in an acting class in my life.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I've always had a day job and never been just acting.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Sometimes men tend to get a little shy, so if the woman wants to make the first move, go ahead!
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.
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The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
