#think

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. ↗

— Cees Nooteboom

#fantasy #language #night-thoughts #self-deception #self-knowledge

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#choice #evolution #evolved #i #i think

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #changing #expect #i #i think

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue. ↗

— Willie Aames

#clue #know #people #think #you

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you. ↗

— Willie Aames

#go #going #i #look #looking

I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ. ↗

— Willie Aames

#hope #i #i remember #jesus #jesus christ

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.' ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#get #i #i think #lot #might

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#broad #class #coming #democracy #democratic

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#ago #american #center #challenge #colleague

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#countries #i #i think #international #international relations