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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 16
Actor
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Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.
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Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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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.
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I think Kwame will be an asset to the Lakers.
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I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
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The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.
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Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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The saying, Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.
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Each story, novel, poem and play presents a vision of the world that illuminates the dark cave of life we stumble through. We can see better where we're going, what sudden drop to avoid, where the cool water is running.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.
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