Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
Kate Winslet -
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Abba Eban -
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller -
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Ed Koch -
Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
Qandeel Baloch
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Natan Sharansky -
I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
Dan O'Brien -
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Nana Mouskouri -
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania of Jordan -
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
Samantha Stosur -
When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
Damon Lindelof -
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken -
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley -
I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
Sam Walton -
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke -
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady Gregory -
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Edmund Wilson -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
Frank Deford -
I think I really benefited from going to college.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar