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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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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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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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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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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I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
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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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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.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Everybody infers that Islam must be free from slavery and caste. Regarding slavery nothing needs to be said. It stands abolished now by law. But while it existed much of its support was derived from Islam and Islamic countries. (228-230)
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To write is to give meaning to suffering.
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I am and always will be a leader.
