Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

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• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Artist
  • Process

• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Influence
  • My Own
  • Height

• 'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • People
  • America
  • Movie

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Problem

• I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Creativity
  • Discipline

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • May
  • Change
  • Better

• There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • War
  • Go
  • Chihuahua

• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Different
  • Society

• I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they have to remember Canelo.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• What our fans want, what our fans believe, what our fans are interested in is why we are what we are. But, nevertheless, ultimately we have to do the things that we believe are essential for the long-term health of the game, of the league, and of all of our franchises.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Why

• There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

  

  Charles Durning
  • Soul
  • Want
  • Knows

• Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

  

  Wang Yangming
  • Action
  • Values

• I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Ideas