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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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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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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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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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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You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.
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One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.
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It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
