Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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My entire life would be reduced merely to a petty battle to change my social class.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage.
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India-Pakistan war and romance have always been sensitive issues for film-makers in both the countries.
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I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
