Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
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I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
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Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
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Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
