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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.
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As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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Characters - conventional women with minor eccentricities - flourished in our world, as Mrs. Cork had no doubt observed. But she'd failed to notice that the characters were all old, rich and pedigreed. Newcomers, especially those of moderate means, were expected to form an attractive but featureless chorus behind our few madcap divas.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
