Joely Fisher Quotes
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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We felt like, first and foremost, we were songwriters.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?
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In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'
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I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
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When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.
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The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.
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The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
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I'm ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because you're not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there.
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I saw Frances Bean at a Blink 182 show. And she was with a guy who looked just like Kurt Cobain.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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...from some distant memory as she stood there before you.
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If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
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I definitely have a Fisher voice.
