Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

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• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Fool

• Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Society
  • Science
  • Culture

• I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Friends
  • House
  • Years

• Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Worry
  • End

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.

  

  Yuna
  • Beginning
  • Weird
  • Better

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Work
  • Home
  • Like

• It would be a dream to be the face of boxing, to be No. 1.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Dream
  • Face
  • Boxing

• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Love
  • Like
  • Wear

• I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Book
  • Help
  • Self

• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Men
  • Stop
  • Three

• I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Band
  • Name
  • Group

• I think that for some people faith is good - they have something to draw to.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Light
  • Paris

• In addition to the vehicles currently known, the holy grail of commercial spaceflight remains a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable spaceplane.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Single

• When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

  

  Jerry Falwell

• Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush - so way, way smarter than me. Obama is way more charismatic than me.

  

  Penn Jillette

• My mom breastfed me for more than a year, and I can't imagine doing it any other way. It's cheap and much better for the environment, and you don't have to lug all that stuff around.

  

  Emily Deschanel
  • Mom
  • Environment

• You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • World

• I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

  

  Gladys Knight Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Style
  • Singing

• Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Words
  • Risk

• I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Shoes
  • Basketball