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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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 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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Hey Uncle SamPut your name at the top of his listAnd the Statue of LibertyStarted shaking her fist.And the eagle will flyMan, it's gonna be hellWhen you hear Mother FreedomStart ringing her bellAnd it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on youBrought to you Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.
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On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.
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In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.
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Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
