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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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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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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Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.
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My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.
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I have to lead a very small life in terms of what people think 'Hollywood' is. It's a full life for me, but I'm not jetting across the world. But life is good.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.
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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.
