Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Place
  • More

• The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • World
  • Free
  • Team

• Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Better
  • Strength
  • Tools

• I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Identity

• My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

  

  James Comey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Opinion
  • Air

• My girlfriend Rhonda, who's now my wife, I graduated from high school, she got pregnant. My grandfather said, 'You've got to do the right thing.'

  

  Bernie Mac
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I write in the weirdest places. I wrote 'Girl on the Coast' in my car with the kids in the back and Eric driving. I just wrote the whole thing on my phone. I just typed out the lyrics.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Car

• I've always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!

  

  Lucas Till
  • Superhero

• When I picked up the guitar for the first time, it opened up a whole new world for me. I became obsessed with writing and playing.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• For me, having a baby was never going to be timed randomly. I wanted to have mine while I was on 'Scandal.' Kerry Washington is one of my best friends, and I've gotten to watch her go through motherhood. I also have the greatest female boss in Shonda Rhimes, who is a mother of three and a huge advocate for women.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Mother

• As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Bird

• By the time I grew up, acting just seemed like something I'd already done. I had absolutely no interest in it, even though some people thought it would be my calling.

  

  Nell Newman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

  

  John McGahern
  • Church
  • Gratitude

• In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Mind

• With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Time
  • Science
  • Culture

• Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

  

  E. L. James
  • Work
  • Television
  • British

• It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

  

  Peter Hook New Order
  • Friends
  • Ironic
  • Hating

• What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Years
  • Realized
  • Good Friends

• I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

  

  Sxip Shirey
  • Ironic
  • Rocker
  • Indie