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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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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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
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I've seen the impact of deportation in my district. It is heartbreaking to see families torn apart for no good reason.
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There are very few distinctions between el bueno and el malo en la prision militar. Instead of the good and the bad, there is the boring and la repeticion - the repetitive. The routine is as endless as it is numbing.
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Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
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The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he has power, both literally and metaphorically, really appealed to me.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
