Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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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.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.
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I don't like attacking.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
