Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
-
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
-
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
-
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-
I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
-
To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
-
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.
-
Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
-
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
-
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.
-
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
-
You and I are streaming data engines.
-
In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
-
Do not shift your focus from serving others to focusing exclusively on school, work, or social activities.
-
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
-
The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.
-
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
