Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.
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I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
