Derek Fisher Quotes
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me... so now I let the money drive me.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
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CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.
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Junk food drags you down.
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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.
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Because I happen to believe that the best policy solutions lie in the center ground, then I want to see, how does the center revitalize itself? How does it develop the policy agenda for the future? And how do we link up people who have the same basic ideas and attachments to the same basic values across the world?
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What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
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I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.
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We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.
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I am not a passenger in anything I do.
