Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can.
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It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
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Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
