Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
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Walking in stop-motion animation is probably the most difficult thing you can do... The way that they have these puppets connect to the set is they actually drill a hole in the set, and they put a threaded rod up through that hole and screw it into the bottom of their foot, and that keeps them in place.
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Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?
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President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
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The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.