Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.
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Counting makes even hideous events bearable as simply more of the same - the counting of wedding-rings, spectacles, teeth and bodies disassociates them from their context - to make the ultimate obscene blasphemy of bureaucratic insensitivity. Engage the mind with numbing recitation to make it empty of reaction.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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I like perfume and flowers.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
