Derek Fisher quote: "Inconsistent performance at a high level -- not because of any one guy or two guys, but as a team. I think [the fast start] gave us a false sense of security, actually. We thought we were already good, as opposed to still working toward being good."

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another ...
DEREK FISHER

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even...
DEREK FISHER

That's our roadblock. So even though we could be down a couple bodies, I think it's definitely a goo...
DEREK FISHER

The missed free throws gave the first half a funky kind of tone.
DEREK FISHER

We have maintained for some time that Spinifex Ridge is rapidly emerging as a mineral project with s...
DEREK FISHER

In the past it's come up maybe in the middle of the year, after we'd lost some games, or been frustr...
DEREK FISHER

[But] for me it might not be improving percentage-wise, from 28 percent to 45 percent or 55 percent....
DEREK FISHER

We know that we aren't playing our best basketball, but we've done enough to win games. What would f...
DEREK FISHER

It tells you something about this team that we were able to start the season off correctly after tha...
DEREK FISHER

I think some of it has to be the new [guidelines].
DEREK FISHER

That's the type of personality he has. But he does it in a way that's respectful of his teammates. H...
DEREK FISHER

Coach Popovich is a very intelligent coach. He must have felt that his team needed to get some emoti...
DEREK FISHER

I was just trying to do whatever I needed to help us win. That was the objective. Today we needed ex...
DEREK FISHER

People feel like we've brought it to the point where a position has to be made: OK, what are we goin...
DEREK FISHER

There's still a possibility, and that's what we're playing for. This game felt really good. This was...
DEREK FISHER

We had an opportunity to win. That's what you want to do in this league. You can't plan on how you'r...
DEREK FISHER

I don't know and I guess I've been around too long to say we deserved it when we didn't win. The tea...
DEREK FISHER

I feel like it's my job to step up my game to whatever level is needed for the team to be successful...
DEREK FISHER

It takes some feel-good with you to the All-Star break.
DEREK FISHER

As a veteran player, you hate to be out there in that situation, but tonight was about the other 29 ...
DEREK FISHER

You see arguably our best player going out there to do everything he can possibly do to win a game e...
DEREK FISHER

I allowed my teammates to do what they do. The key to our success tonight was balance and the fact t...
DEREK FISHER

That's what this league is about - you have to counterpunch. And we got punched. But we punched back...
DEREK FISHER

He's in a position now where he gets to make those plays every night and every time. He's just showi...
DEREK FISHER

Everybody just looks at his scoring, but as he's developed into that player he is now, a lot of it i...
DEREK FISHER

It's definitely the way it looks.
DEREK FISHER

It's a belief in progress. Wins like (Tuesday's) help build that belief and that confidence that you...
DEREK FISHER

I think it's that we got a chance to practice a few days, give ourselves a chance to focus on how we...
DEREK FISHER

Three in a row, you know what I mean? I ain't feeling that.
DEREK FISHER

We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. … We try to match up on their better shoot...
DEREK FISHER

When the opportunities are there, I'll probably have to be a little more aggressive offensively, ins...
DEREK FISHER

More scoring. That's what the league wants. Calling those fouls up front leads to more penetration, ...
DEREK FISHER

In the first half, we didn't give them a lot to get excited about other than the explosions in the i...
DEREK FISHER

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.
DEREK FISHER

It not just going to fall into our lap. We're going to have to go out and earn it.
DEREK FISHER

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He ta...
HELEN FISHER

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
CARRIE FISHER

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in dif...
CARRIE FISHER

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
CARRIE FISHER

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still survivin...
CARRIE FISHER

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
CARRIE FISHER

I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I l...
CARRIE FISHER

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
CARRIE FISHER

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a na...
CARRIE FISHER

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a sympto...
HELEN FISHER

What I've realized recently is that the difference between me and Mickey Mouse is, there's n...
CARRIE FISHER

Generally, variations in earnings aren't nearly as impactful on glamour growth stocks as are cha...
KENNETH FISHER

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on...
FISHER STEVENS

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always sm...
CARRIE FISHER

Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that mea...
HELEN FISHER

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad...
HELEN FISHER

Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even i...
KENNETH FISHER

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its ...
KENNETH FISHER

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillatio...
KENNETH FISHER

What I loved about breast-feeding was that bond of one-on-one time. The serotonin that's release...
ISLA FISHER

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible...
TERENCE FISHER

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For ...
HELEN FISHER

Writing is a very calming thing for me.
CARRIE FISHER

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business p...
KENNETH FISHER

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start...
FISHER STEVENS

I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
FISHER STEVENS

And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
FISHER STEVENS

Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s...
FISHER STEVENS

But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fa...
FISHER STEVENS

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
FISHER STEVENS

But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
FISHER STEVENS

Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
FISHER STEVENS

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.
FISHER STEVENS

But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I neve...
FISHER STEVENS

I'm really obsessed with the past.
FISHER STEVENS

No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
FISHER STEVENS

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
FISHER STEVENS

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
FISHER STEVENS

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. I...
FISHER STEVENS

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's ...
FISHER STEVENS

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant ...
FISHER AMES

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
FISHER AMES

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produ...
FISHER AMES

Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be as...
HELEN FISHER

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's ass...
HELEN FISHER

Man is by nature a political animal.
FISHER AMES

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
FISHER AMES

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be l...
FISHER AMES

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced ...
CARRIE FISHER

I think some guys take advantage of girls who are drunk. The best thing they need to do is walk away...
ADAM FISHER

We specialized it to run employee contests in the stores. We encouraged employees to go through the ...
ADAM FISHER

I think I still got my point across, irrelevant to the jury deciding or not. Plus, with the jury you...
ADAM FISHER

I can easily handle the legal fees.
ADAM FISHER

The amount of the settlement is confidential, but I am very satisfied, ... For me, a shot from tee t...
ADAM FISHER

I called, like, a lot of people, ... I called my parents and all my friends. Then I had to call them...
ADAM FISHER

They never said anything about not being able to gain a prize by using a mulligan, ... They never sa...
ADAM FISHER

I thought I had my first year of college paid for, so I was pretty excited.
ADAM FISHER

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chi...
HELEN FISHER

Our job is to make sure the money is not diverted to fraudsters.
ALICE FISHER

We have a zero tolerance for people stealing funds meant for storm victims. Many of the cases we are...
ALICE FISHER

This is not something the department should be getting involved with,
ALICE FISHER

We're going to act quickly and aggressively to detect any kind of fraud and vigorously pursue it if ...
ALICE FISHER

If it doesn't look right, chances are it's not,
ALICE FISHER

When individuals meet here in the shadow of our nation's capital to go prepare for violent action, w...
ALICE FISHER

[The standoff stems from an FBI e-mail revealed during recent litigation over detainee-abuse allegat...
ALICE FISHER

Philip Bloom admits offering millions in bribes so that he and his companies could receive contracts...
ALICE FISHER

Government officials and government action are not for sale. The Justice Department will aggressivel...
ALICE FISHER

Providing persons with unknown backgrounds undetected entry into our country is a threat to national...
ALICE FISHER

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.
CARRIE FISHER

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...
CARRIE FISHER

I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. T...
TARRYN FISHER

Le Tub is a Miami oceanside restaurant that uses old bath tubs and toilets as decoration. If you're ...
TARRYN FISHER

I could charm the birds out of everyone's trees but his
CARRIE FISHER

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
CARRIE FISHER

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
CARRIE FISHER

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value
IRVING FISHER

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo...
IRVING FISHER

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
CARRIE FISHER

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes p...
HELEN FISHER

She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic...
CARRIE FISHER

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
CARRIE FISHER

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a...
ISLA FISHER

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer...
FISHER AMES

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.
CARRIE FISHER

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. ...
CARRIE FISHER

One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. N...
CARRIE FISHER

Romantic love is an addiction.
HELEN FISHER

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I j...
CARRIE FISHER

I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a...
CARRIE FISHER

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision y...
ISLA FISHER

Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip ab...
CARRIE FISHER

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married i...
ISLA FISHER

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
RONALD FISHER

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
JOELY FISHER

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my ...
ISLA FISHER

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it'...
CARRIE FISHER

People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply s...
HELEN FISHER

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.
JOELY FISHER

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be ...
GEOFFREY FISHER

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, i...
CARRIE FISHER

In the younger women, there is a 50 percent reduction in the recurrence rate, and in the older women...
BERNARD FISHER

The use of tamoxifen can prevent breast cancer in patients who have no evidence of breast cancer but...
BERNARD FISHER

This study proves the principle that prevention is a legitimate kind of approach to treating breast ...
BERNARD FISHER

All of these patients, younger as well as older, whether they have tumors that have estrogen recepto...
BERNARD FISHER

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so wel...
CARRIE FISHER

You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your cons...
TARRYN FISHER

There is a lot of pent-up demand from consumers.
ANDREW FISHER

I thought about putting in comfortable chairs, like at Barnes & Noble, but I decided I didn't want p...
ANDREW FISHER

It is difficult to say at the moment when we will be able to start drilling. We are pretty much read...
ANDREW FISHER

We are currently targeting exciting exploration benefits in the Orange Basin offshore South Africa a...
ANDREW FISHER

hurricane Long-Term blew through our markets with such force that many were left homeless. While our...
ANDREW FISHER

Bellinger Cottage is a significant home in Chicago's history. The next owner would be eligible for a...
ANDREW FISHER

We shall look for more detail on the group's cost-cutting programme and on recent acquisitions. Over...
ANDREW FISHER

This transaction confirms the value and superiority of the technology developed by Shazam, and permi...
ANDREW FISHER

This transaction confirms the value and superiority of the technology developed by Shazam.
ANDREW FISHER

Our understanding is that it is not yet in place.
ANDY FISHER

They did not. The border patrol finally got orders to let us go.
ANDY FISHER

It's easy, its international and it can be fairly anonymous.
ANDY FISHER

If we are supplying the demand, then other people will carry on killing endangered species,
ANDY FISHER

For the most part that would be true, but not in every instance.
ANDY FISHER

This is not the first time this has happened. It may be some kind of internal bureaucratic problem.
ANDY FISHER

We have to take care of the cost issue, ... For some businesses, it's just cheaper to throw the food...
ANDY FISHER

There may be a myriad of laws that have some relevance.
ANDY FISHER

Many changes can be expected to be made to the legislation during the Senate floor debate. Sen. Luga...
ANDY FISHER

The modified provisions will provide for the protection of civil liberties of United States citizens...
ANDY FISHER

Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly...
HELEN FISHER

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the res...
CARRIE FISHER

Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have m...
KENNETH FISHER

Wanting someone to notice you all the while praying no one does.
TARRYN FISHER

When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of th...
ANN FISHER

We haven't closed any avenues,
ANN FISHER

It's not anything we're trying to keep secret,
ANN FISHER

It's big and it's great and we're excited about it,
ANN FISHER

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,
ANN FISHER

They asked if they could be an angel and go visit grandmaw,
ANN FISHER

It's like we are in a dream,
ANN FISHER

The Illinois and Chicago Departments of Public Health have a terrific reputation with regard to the ...
ANN FISHER

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisio...
HELEN FISHER

You can certainly be an artist anywhere, ... But it's helpful to live in a community that has a cons...
AMY FISHER

I say use Arts Walk as a goal, ... Create a body of work. It's a great way to discipline yourself, s...
AMY FISHER

I'm really interested in conveying sort of a spiritual connection with nature in my work, ... It's a...
AMY FISHER

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.
AMY FISHER

When I was a child, I played in trees a lot, ... I'm very attached to trees and trees being kind of ...
AMY FISHER

I wanted to do something different, ... I really didn't give any thought to practicality.
AMY FISHER

I just love making pictures, ... It's really kind of magical to have a blank page and have something...
AMY FISHER

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,
AMY FISHER

[In the story, called] Judging Amy, ... In the deli, at the movies, at the mall, I don't mind people...
AMY FISHER

For those of us who want a change from the dating status quo (I, for one, have an 11 p.m. curfew!), ...
AMY FISHER

Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you...
HELEN FISHER

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those day...
HELEN FISHER

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...
CARRIE FISHER

It's actually more room but it's kind of hard. When you get two TVs going in here, it's kind of hard...
ALEX FISHER

That's our greatest challenge: to continue to introduce newer and different and better and more dura...
ALEX FISHER

There's no such thing as a bad idea, ... It has really helped us sort of really be creative and diff...
ALEX FISHER

The dog thing seemed to be the most fun and have the most potential, ... The market seemed to be rea...
ALEX FISHER

We are always empowering people to just let it out, let's think outside the box, ... And as long as ...
ALEX FISHER

I'm bringing Hollywood to Collingswood,
BILL FISHER

It's a lot of fun. The kids are pumped. The morale is very high. It's been a great two weeks.
BILL FISHER

This is our biggest win. It's a team that wins games, not the (individual) athletes.
BILL FISHER

Occupancies overall will probably be down a little bit because of the building boom that is occurrin...
BILL FISHER

We're not a first year school anymore, we feel we can play with anyone on our schedule, ... We have ...
BILL FISHER

Inconsistent performance at a high level -- not because of any one guy or two guys, but as a team. I think [the fast start] gave us a false sense of security, actually. We thought we were already good, as opposed to still working toward being good.

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Inconsistent performance at a high level -- not because of any one guy or two guys, but as a team. I think [the fast start] gave us a false sense of security, actually. We thought we were already good, as opposed to still working toward being good.

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