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Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1971

Topics

Good Girl Me Motivation You Play

Some athletes feel they have to show they're confident and talk about what they're going to achieve. I don't think there's anything wrong with just quietly believing in yourself and just getting on with it. You don't have to talk about it all the time; you want your performances to show for it.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Time Yourself Think Confident You

I worked for a big department store, and strangely, on my first day, they put me in charge of Christmas wrapping. I didn't know how to wrap a present and make it not look like it fell off a truck.

Day Me Truck Present Look Know

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

John Paul Jones

Alone Class Self-Interest Mankind

We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.

Matthew Heineman

Rain Camera Land Never Dust Storms

Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after.

Angela Duckworth

People Why Try Some People Again

I was interested in variations in temperatures of the oceans over the past millennium. But there are no records of these changes so I had to find proxy measures: coral growth, ice cores and tree rings.

Michael E. Mann

Growth Tree Past Ice Find Changes

I never really thought about what characters I play. I always just wanted different characters.

Stephanie Leonidas

Thought Play Never Always Different

It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

Love You Back Down Meeting Paris

It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?

Music Simple Support Me Think Know

I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it.

Domhnall Gleeson

Life View Connect Awful Like His

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Brennan Manning

Failure God Journey Loneliness Death

When I was a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I became obsessed with end user license agreements.

Foundation End Frontier Policy User

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