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Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate,

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldnt have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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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. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way. – Zoe Kazan

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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. – Yahoo Serious

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I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious. – Will Smith

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