Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.

John Cameron Mitchell

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I was about 10, and I was supposed to be playing the piano at the school concert, and I got up in front of the whole school and said, 'I'm sorry. I'm changing the agenda. I want to play some songs I've written.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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You have to love the doing of what you're doing and not wait for the phone to ring.

Robert Stack

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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.

Matthew Desmond

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As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

Anita Sarkeesian

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I'm not a sportswriter.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Shooting the ball is a part of the game. Everybody can shoot in their own way. Not everybody can make. But everybody can shoot.

Stephen Curry

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Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

Sloane Crosley

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My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films made within a budget are wrong. But when audiences come to see my film with their families, I guess they are spending at least 10 per cent of their monthly income. I don't want to cheat them.

Rohit Shetty

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I was dead inside.

Lorraine Bracco

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When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

Bozoma Saint John

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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?

Bobby Darin

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