Gary Sheffield Quotes

I'm definitely excited. With our offense, we feel like we can accomplish anything. We tried to jump a big hurdle last year, we had a lot of pitchers injured. Unfortunately, our offense wasn't able to take us all the way through.

Gary Sheffield

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• When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Artist

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Things

• I tell people all the time, as I was going through my process of being a comedian or being an actor and a writer at 'SNL,' I tell people that everything you do is all a piece of your puzzle to determine where you're going to end up at.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Know
  • Conscious

• I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Want
  • Confused

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Interesting

• When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Up
  • Relationship

• I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Proud
  • Guilty
  • Senate

• The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Why
  • She

• I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did.

  

  David Foster
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

  

  Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Desire
  • Progress

• The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people of their right to education. Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women. Sixty-six percent of countries have no laws to protect women from domestic abuse, and battery is the largest cause of injury to women in America.

  

  Alice Glass
  • Women
  • Injury
  • Exploitation

• It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

  

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
  • People
  • Power

• I'm definitely excited. With our offense, we feel like we can accomplish anything. We tried to jump a big hurdle last year, we had a lot of pitchers injured. Unfortunately, our offense wasn't able to take us all the way through.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Player
  • Jump
  • Accomplishment