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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Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.
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One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.
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I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
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I enjoy catching our show whenever I can. It does get very weird to watch myself, it's always been that way, but at the same time, it's part of my job to see what kind of job I'm doing and to get a perspective on where I'm taking the character.
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All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
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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.