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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Challenge People Black Think Burden

I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.

Love Dream Paris True Shoot Come

Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.

Plan Stop Why Working Been Still

Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Melanne Verveer

Time Saying End Credit Table Others

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Blue City Go Tennessee Ribbon Gotta

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams Age Old Age Youth Look Old

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Poetry Very Defined Schoolboy Seemed

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Focus Fight Finding Human Rights

The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world.

Government World Image Union Been

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Character You Bad Know Actor Always

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

Texas Guitar Driving Distance Play

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

Good Opinion Self-Respect Personal

My dad's a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people.

Work People Looking Dressed Go Him

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