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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Think Way NBA Accountable Just Like

History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.

Funny History Experience People Hard

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Love Process Movies Act Because

I think that often in the United States we're very blind to the ways that history lives in the present.

History Think Blind Present United

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Book Reading More Just Than Much

I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.

I Can Play Go Bar Dancers Counting

Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.

Attention You Hard Audience Used

You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

People You Know Important Never

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Time Speed Bad Limit Stay Get

By growing up at a center for people with special needs, I learned to always fight hard to achieve what I want. In this regard, I was incredibly lucky.

Fight People Growing Up Achieve Want

Joy Behar... Is never even funny accidentally.

Funny Joy Never Even Accidentally

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Donatella Versace

People Fashion Jewelry Clothes You

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

David Weinberger

Knowledge Internet New Level Only

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