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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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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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.
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Let’s make the SAT and PSAT free so everyone has a chance to succeed.
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I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.
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A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.
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See, winners embrace hard work.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
