Top 100 Jamal's Quotes
#1. The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.
Shashi Tharoor
#2. Here's how man thinks: If no one's done it, why should I try? It's a waste of my time; but if he's done it, I can do it better.
Nabil N. Jamal
#3. The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.
Kola Boof
#4. It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.
Nabil N. Jamal
#5. Talk to people about what they want to hear and they'll stay for more.
Talk to them about what you want them to hear and they'll soon turn away.
Nabil N. Jamal
#6. I don't see you making it to the top; nobody's going to help you get there. You have to do it all on your own. But if you want it so bad, prove me wrong.
Nabil N. Jamal
#7. I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.
Ahmad Jamal
#8. If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
Robert Glasper
#9. Companies don't succeed, people do.
Companies don't fail, people do.
Nabil N. Jamal
#11. As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.
Jamal Lewis
#14. African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#15. Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook.
Jamal Idris
#17. Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#18. When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.
Jamal Lewis
#19. Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
Ahmad Jamal
#20. You cannot advance if you cannot visualize the end from the start.
Nabil N. Jamal
#21. I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.
Jamal Lewis
#22. Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do it after it's been done.
Nabil N. Jamal
#23. Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility
Jamal Mahjoub
#24. Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.
Azim Jamal
#25. All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
Miles Davis
#26. Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries.
Nabil N. Jamal
#27. If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?
John Edgar Wideman
#28. Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#29. Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#30. Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#31. As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.
Jamal Lewis
#32. If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.
Jamal Lewis
#33. The men laugh at the witty line, but it is not a belly laugh. Beasley's mouth is in a wide smile, but his eyes do not laugh, for there is little reason for joy. And if eyes are indeed mirrors of the soul, then they reflect an infinite sadness. I look away, afraid of what mine might reflect
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#34. You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
Ahmad Jamal
#35. I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.
Jamal Lewis
#36. when you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn't get the job, it's easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who've tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn't a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
Christian Rudder
#37. A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.
Nabil N. Jamal
#39. The state would rather give me an uzi than a microphone.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#40. The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
Ahmad Jamal
#41. I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.
Jamal Lewis
#42. I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the career that I've had and worked with the many awesome creators I have.
Jamal Igle
#43. He who is satisfied with what he has, is a rich man.
Nabil N. Jamal
#44. I think because I came into journalism by way of the Black Panther Party - and not J-school or a corporate bourgeois institution - I tried to do news, writing and reporting that had social, political and racial content and context.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#45. Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#46. The power of giving is instantaneous, continuous and eternal.
Azim Jamal
#47. The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#48. It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays.
Nabil N. Jamal
#49. Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one's creativity and reveal more possibilities.
Nabil N. Jamal
#50. Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
Ilana Mercer
#51. I don't watch that much football ... I really like to play it.
Jamal Lewis
#52. That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
Jamal Lewis
#54. Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.
Nabil N. Jamal
#55. Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.
Jamal Lewis
#56. In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#57. When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#58. Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#59. The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.
Nabil N. Jamal
#60. Why start something that you won't see to the end? You need to finish what you start!
Nabil N. Jamal
#61. I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.
Jamal Lewis
#62. The only instance where five purely-negative words had had a highly positive, motivational impact are Winston Churchill's, Never, Never, Never, Never Give-up.
Nabil N. Jamal
#63. Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.
Nabil N. Jamal
#64. People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#65. The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#66. I love networking. But I learned to love it
Jamal Igle
#67. I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.
Ahmad Jamal
#69. My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.
Michael Moriarty
#70. Here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#71. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#72. Everybody knows how others should do their jobs - but they don't know how to do theirs.
Nabil N. Jamal
#73. But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#74. Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,
Ahmad Jamal
#75. It doesn't matter how much you make, what matters is what you become. Stay hungry.. Learn.. you'll become world-class
Azim Jamal
#76. I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#77. Being a celebrity can be very intoxicating and very addicting. And I've always been afraid of that, because I've grown up post-almost every child star out there who has gone wayward.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#78. When his parents announced the newest rules to Jamal, he defiantly announced back to them that, as a matter of principle, he would not be "manipulated or forced into complying with a Fascist parenting style.
James T. Webb
#79. I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#80. Imperfection keeps me trying, and I won't stop even if I do achieve it.
Nabil N. Jamal
#81. The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#82. Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.
Ahmad Jamal
#83. Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#84. In a negotiation, we must find a solution that pleases everyone, because no one accepts that they must lose and that the other must win ... Both must win!
Nabil N. Jamal
#85. The attitude you bring to your giving will reflect the benefits you gain.
Azim Jamal
#86. In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
#87. I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.
Jamal Lewis
#88. If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#89. It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.
Nabil N. Jamal
#90. How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.
Cris Collinsworth
#91. Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.
Nabil N. Jamal
#93. Communication succeeds when you make others understand you clearly, and they make you understand them clearly.
Nabil N. Jamal
#94. We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.
Nabil N. Jamal
#95. Free people have a right to decide for themselves what they want to hear.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#97. I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
#98. t is your own barrier, you set it, and only you can remove it. Remember that. So, do you want to try again or permanently give up?
Nabil N. Jamal
#99. It was a great idea from my teammate Jamal Crawford. He kept telling me to jump over Spud, so we decided to call him and he was more than willing to participate with me. I just thank God for him.
Nate Robinson
#100. Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?
Diana Wynne Jones
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