Gary Sheffield Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
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I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
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I am done doing that, ... I don't see it getting any better.
