Derek Fisher Quotes
I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others - a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.
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You either control your mind or it controls you.
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
