Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was.
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Obviously I read the newspaper sometimes, or I look on the Internet. When you go out in public, you hear things, and people ask you questions, and that's part of the game.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
