Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I don't like allegories.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.
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But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
