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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My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.
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Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.
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Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
