Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.
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I've always believed that humans are good at heart. But there's always the exception.
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The Afghan people do not take kindly to conquerors.
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There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology.
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I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
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Islam is about finding your own space.
