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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: April 16, 1947

Topics

Time People Basketball Start Library

Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.

Family Just Because Because Just

They'd have to force me to take the All-Star Game. They take over the building, your season-ticket holders have to be in a lottery to see if they get tickets, and then they don't get a good ticket. Really, no good can come out of it, and all it can do is upset your fans.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Good Me Building Game Upset Lottery

It's funny how sometimes you learn things off the Internet before they're actually told to you.

Funny Internet Learn You Sometimes

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

Day Men Yourself Think Present You

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

John Edgar Wideman

Art Basketball You Find Jazz Make

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Teacher Art Purpose Curiosity Young

Discounting the ineffably repetitive homophobic barbs that I receive most days, Twitter trolls' most common gripe against me appears to be that I am 'posh.' Contrary to their unshakeable view, I was not born into the upstairs world.

I Am Me World View Born Days

You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doing that.

Good Great Fun Doing You Bad

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Life King Think You Chess Capable

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Time Head Film Stuff Imagining

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

Improvement Direction You Things How

You know, when you start, especially with me, I didn't really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater.

Ludivine Sagnier

Me Start Thought You Know Going

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