Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
Malin Akerman -
I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
Calvin Klein -
Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
Edgar Wright -
I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
Ville Valo HIM -
Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
Zach Galifianakis -
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
Naomi Watts
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
Oliver Tambo -
I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
Naveen Jain -
I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
Laetitia Casta -
A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
Vince Flynn
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
Harold Prince -
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
Ian Hislop -
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
Aaron Copland -
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
Natalie Dormer -
By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'
Garrett Clayton -
Curvy is something to be proud of.
Paloma Faith
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Taking part on this show is a million miles away from my normal acting jobs.
Nikki Sanderson -
My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
Iain Glen -
We were never meant to be the world's greatest debtor nation. We were never meant to have our ancestors' patrimony sold to the highest foreign bidder.
Paul Tsongas -
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
C. S. Lewis -
I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar