Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

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• I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Marketing
  • Selfish

• It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Hate

• Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • You
  • Mean
  • Singing

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • American
  • Giving
  • Religious

• For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Better
  • Short

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stage

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Man

• Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Believe
  • Easter

• Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Work
  • Food
  • Water

• The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics - if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Different
  • Player
  • Study

• I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn't. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Family

• One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

  

  Paul Kantner
  • Band

• There seems to me nothing very bad about a nation's capital having good intentions - and when the intentions are magnificent, so much the better.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Good
  • Bad

• A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.

  

  Joel Hodgson
  • Science

• Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Important
  • Player
  • Needs