Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I'm not a leading man.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
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Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
