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.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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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.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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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.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hear the other side.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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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.
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I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
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Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.
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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
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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.
