Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.
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I'm born and raised in Houston, Texas, but Wisconsin is always going to be a home for me, and I'll always be back.
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More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.
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Rufus Alexander made probably the biggest play of the game down at the goal line, and he got the ball back for us.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
