Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher) Quotes
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
Quotes to Explore
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I am healthy and happy.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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Each and every one of us has unknowingly played a part in the obesity problem.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life.
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You cannot build a great nation or brotherhood of man by spreading envy or hatred.
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One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair or replace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live. We must act when it has become evident that said legislation no longer serves us as a people or advances the principles upon which this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit of happiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation. If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannot be creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regaining American competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is not creating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed that taught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployed would find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealth creation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunity. and the tools.
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If life becomes hard to bear we think of improvements. But the most important and effective improvement, in our own attitude, hardly occurs to us, and we can decide on this only with the utmost difficulty.
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It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.
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Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a better understanding of the type of artist you want to be.
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I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
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Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
