Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

John C. Mather

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Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

Ann Coulter

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The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.

Jeff Giles

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Moreover, resolving the mother of all problems - the Israeli-Palestinian question - requires cooperation between Europe and the U.S.

Romano Prodi

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Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

Michael Shermer

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You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Lucy Liu

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This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.

Dennis Muilenburg

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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Bryan Procter

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Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.

Synyster Gates

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I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Paul Walker

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Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

Seth Shostak

FunSpaceWritingInsurancePerfect

What's great is that each medium has a unique set of things that it does and does well. Film is a visual medium, and obviously, you can't fit a whole book into two hours unless you're really economical about it. Obviously, they say a picture is worth a thousand words, and on some level, it's sort of true.

Noah Hawley

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