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.
Dambisa Moyo -
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.
Federica Montseny -
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.
J. August Richards -
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
Queen Elizabeth II -
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Dan Webster
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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.
Fionn Whitehead -
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.
Ted Yoho -
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
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.
Warren Buffett -
If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
Carlos Ghosn
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
Mamie Van Doren -
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.
Ike Barinholtz -
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.
Olivia Colman -
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin -
Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi -
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
M.I.A.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
Venus Williams -
My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
Irving Stone -
In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.
Anne Ortlund -
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
Abhishek Bachchan -
I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar