Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

Joel Salatin

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You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Jehane Noujaim

OpportunityYouKnowPrinciples

I was very unique as a child, dressed a certain way, acted a certain way, didn't fit in with everybody. So I immediately got picked on, especially around the age of 12 and 13, when you start going to junior high and start mingling with the older kids. To counteract that, strictly for self-defense, I wanted to get bigger.

John Cena

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Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers.

Michael Gerber

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You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Amanda Seyfried

PeopleMeLearnYouVeryQuickly

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

Sonam Kapoor

GirlMenI AmMeStupidOpinion

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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I think I became an actress because I didn't know who I was, and I certainly didn't like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.

Trudie Styler

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Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings.

Martin Seligman

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I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

Mika

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I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for it to stop, and the team's manager, Willie Randolph, comes by. Now he's already intimidating to begin with. But he comes over to me and says, 'If you screw this up, they will boo you.' And I said 'Thanks.'

Julia Stiles

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At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

Christine Lavin

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