Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I never left doo wop.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.
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There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
