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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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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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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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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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My job is being 'Mrs. Ronald Reagan.'
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
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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.
