Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
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People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
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The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.
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I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters' and 'Knight Rider' and Hot Wheels commercials. When I got to college, having never set foot in America, I knew more American pop-culture references than my friends did.
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As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
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I've always been a movie guy, movies have been my thing. I love movies, all kinds of movies.
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I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.
