Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
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I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
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I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.
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When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
