John Sheffield Quotes
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
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I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.
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What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system.
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Successful investment is a battle for financial survival.
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I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.
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Love is the salt of life.
