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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• 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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• Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

  

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• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

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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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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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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• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on 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.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

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• The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

  

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• I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

  

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• When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

  

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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.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Past
  • Wall
  • Blow