Derek Fisher Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I'm not signing on to direct 'Black Panther.' I think I'll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they're fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me.
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'Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.'
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
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Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.
