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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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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All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
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.
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