Gary Sheffield Quotes
I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
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The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I've always been a 'small goals' kind of guy.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
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I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.
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Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
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I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.
