Gary Sheffield Quotes
The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
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Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.
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Socrates, on being insulted in the marketplace, asked by a passerby, 'Don’t you worry about being called names?' retorted, 'Why? Do you think I should resent it if an ass had kicked me?'
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'They are trying to make my God a liar. That I will not accept. If that's the case, then better to be poor and loyal to God than to have all the money in the world.'
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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The bottom line, ... is why should you be trying to get anybody on your side if you're doing the right thing in the first place?
