Gary Sheffield Quotes
I got whiplash. I didn't even know the wall was there. I tried to blow past the ball and I slammed into the wall.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I was a tomboy.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
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And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
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Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is-it’s over.
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Print is not dead.
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If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.
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I got whiplash. I didn't even know the wall was there. I tried to blow past the ball and I slammed into the wall.
