I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
Quote by Kareem Abdul-jabbar
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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Kareem Abdul-jabbar Quotes
- I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
- The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
- I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
- What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
- I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
- You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
- A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
- I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
- Music is really something that makes people whole.
- My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
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- The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
- Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
- The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
- Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.