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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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
