Gary Sheffield Quotes
Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I feel like people always wanna define me and I don’t wanna be defined.
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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There's a lot of different styles of hypnosis. There's conversational hypnosis, which, even though we joke about it, politicians use conversational hypnosis. I've been hired back at home in Ireland by certain politicians to assist them in specific language patterns that will just tip people over into their, you know, into their zone.
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
