Sheryl Swoopes Quotes
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As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.
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I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.
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Love is the core of everything - nothing survives without it.
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Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
