Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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Life is too short to learn German.
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If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
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Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
