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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While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is 'cool.'
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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
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The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.
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For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.
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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.
