Derek Fisher Quotes

I am and always will be a leader.

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• The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Me
  • Style

• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Young
  • Kindness

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Poetry
  • Everything
  • Soft

• I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Understand
  • Movement

• I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Very
  • Theater
  • Veterans

• I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Powerful
  • Snow

• What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Science
  • Positive
  • Possible

• There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Job
  • House
  • Humble

• I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Always
  • Doing

• Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Reality
  • Band
  • Ideas

• Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.

  

  Zendaya
  • Why
  • Yourself
  • I Can

• I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Life
  • Never
  • Personal

• I learned how to ski for 'Eddie the Eagle.' I never skied before. So I had to go out to Germany a couple of weeks early and make sure I could ski.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Couple
  • Go
  • How

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

  

  Jack Vance

• In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Moments
  • Suicide

• To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Speak
  • Audience
  • Sway

• In the golden rule of Jesus of Nazareth, we read the complete spirit of the ethics of utility. To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Done
  • Jesus
  • Ethics

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Purpose
  • President
  • Invasion

• My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

  

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Mother
  • Peace
  • Personality

• I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Pink

• I am and always will be a leader.

  

  Derek Fisher