Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Kid
  • Just
  • Rotten

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • People
  • Care
  • Elected

• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Job
  • Books
  • Library

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • High
  • Growth
  • Better

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hear
  • Side
  • Other

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• I grew up pretty much with nothing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nothing

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • She
  • Chicago
  • Stand

• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Numbers
  • Manners
  • Morals

• I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Live
  • Trying

• If one basic axiom controls the cosmos, it must be this: In a situation of infinity every possible condition occurs, not once, but an infinite number of times.

  

  Jack Vance

• When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Ideas
  • Army
  • Coffee

• More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Eyes
  • Pain
  • Boy

• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Boy
  • Progress