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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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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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
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I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.
