Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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But I think we need the international market.
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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I sort of have to have a positive outlook.
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I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.
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I still remember 2002. It's a very hard time for Hong Kong industry, no movies in Hong Kong, and also at this moment I start my new company, so many people said, 'You're crazy.'
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.
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You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing so much.
