Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Carrie Fisher

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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

Hailey Gates
- People
- Woman
- Emotional
Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

Ira Glass
- People
- World
- School
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

Manny Montana
- People
- Up
- Hate
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

Wendy Davis
- People
- She
- True
Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.

Raf Simons
- People
- Life
- Time
Marriage is socialism among two people.

Barbara Ehrenreich