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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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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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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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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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can.
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We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
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Sometimes choosing to leave a mistake on a track is way cooler than going back and nailing it.
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I attended seminars where many social issues were discussed abstractly, outside the pressures of an immediate situation, and there I developed certain attitudes which permitted me to face the real thing when it came along.
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The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
