"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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"I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.“
-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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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"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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"I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify."
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"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."
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"I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success."
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-Ray Dalio
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"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."
-Chris O'Donnell
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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."
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"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."
-Thom Yorke
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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."
-Melinda Gates
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