Gary Sheffield Quotes

I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.

Gary Sheffield

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Writing
  • True
  • Break

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Music
  • Writing
  • College

• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
  • Think
  • Always
  • Beginning

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
  • Actor
  • Just

• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • First
  • Three
  • Months

• We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Expectations

• I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Running

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Suffer

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Great
  • Think
  • Kind

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

  

  David Beckham

• I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time - a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Light

• I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Up
  • Air

• I'm pretty reclusive. I'm a homebody.

  

  Max Minghella
  • Pretty

• Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Done
  • Deep
  • Walking

• I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Care