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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.

  

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• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  

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• The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

  

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• That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

  

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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