Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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I do realize that God has given me so many blessings in my life. I mean, not only with football, but with the family that He's blessed me with and the opportunity He's given me to grow up in a home that embraces God.
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Inauguration Day is like two ships passing in the night: the new staff moving in while the other walks out, taking one final look at the White House lawn as they leave with their cardboard box of possessions.
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Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
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My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.
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When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I'm not going to disappear.