Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.
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Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.
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I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.
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I've lost bags all over the world and had cases end up in London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Miami.
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I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.
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I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.
