Derek Fisher Quotes
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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.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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.
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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.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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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.
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There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.
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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.
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Why limit yourself? I feel like I can do anything.
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I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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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.
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The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.
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I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a young age. There was a lot of misplaced rage in high school towards me. My brothers and sisters identified it as bullying, but I didn't at the time.
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I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
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I am and always will be a leader.
