Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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WorkPreparationGameWeakAlways

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

FamilyMotherSingleUpI Was Raised

In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.

Joel Kinnaman

CharacterMeMomThinkingMindset

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

John D. Rockefeller

MenHappyWealthWrongAlways

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

Anderson Cooper

LearningFeelLearnImproveStill

I have had the privilege to be a member of many high-performance teams at NASA, both on and off the planet.

John M. Grunsfeld

NASAPrivilegePlanetOffMember

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

John Hodgman

GreatCelebrateThoughtDesireWell

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeArtMeChaosSometimesMore

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

LifePoetryPeopleThinkForgetOut

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

Louise Slaughter

FamilyWomenHealthPlanningHelp

I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.

Denis Johnson

SonInfluenceThinkLegendYouKnow

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

DeForest Soaries

PowerPeopleLittleStayVeryThem

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

Brooke Burke

WomenMenSensesCommunicate

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