Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Sheryl Swoopes

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• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • High
  • Earth
  • Confidence

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Control
  • Admit
  • Freak

• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Great
  • Motivational
  • Determination

• I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • Down
  • Held

• The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Children
  • Break
  • Jewelry

• We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Country
  • May
  • War

• I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Wine

• There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Law
  • Fit
  • Object

• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • House
  • Look
  • White

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Want
  • Space
  • Decision

• I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Worry
  • Body
  • Enough

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hand

• I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Day
  • Math

• The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Justice
  • Fight
  • Strength

• Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • You
  • Know

• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Solitude
  • Privilege
  • Necessity

• We're just like a regular family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Like
  • Just

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Gender
  • Freedoms
  • Criminalization

• Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

  

  Gary W. Goldstein
  • Generosity
  • Court
  • Mentors

• Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Court
  • Gender
  • Sexuality