Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce.
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I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.
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As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.
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The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information is made available to our people. In fact, free and candid discussion of vexing problems is the bedrock of democracy and it may be our surest safeguard for peace.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
