Kenneth Fisher Quotes
Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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Art is life's dream interpretation.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
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I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.
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One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
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No one is 'the next' anyone, especially if that person is still here, doing their thing, as she Mariah clearly is. The comparisons people have made to me are so flattering, but I think it's insensitive to the people I'm compared to.
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Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.
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Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!
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Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
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My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger.
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I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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The best way to describe my work is comedy in a very, very real way. I'm not scared to look silly on camera. I take everyday situations we all go through and put a very real twist on it - things people can relate to.
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Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
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The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
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Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.
