This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
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Kareem Abdul-jabbar Quotes
- Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
- I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
- This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
- I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
- 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.
- Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.
- My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
- I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
- You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
- I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Best Quotes
- When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
- Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
- We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
- War is the business of barbarians.
- My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
- Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
- I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.