Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

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It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Andre Rieu

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Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.

Michael Hayden

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I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Michael Heizer

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I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

Sonia Rykiel

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George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

Tom Waits

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I don't think I'm afraid of anything.

Louis Theroux

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For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Joseph Butler

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I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Deborah Eisenberg

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There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Alice Cary

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From the point of view of art, the butcher and the victim are equal as people. You need to see the people.

Svetlana Alexievich

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Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

Peter Thiel

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