Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
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Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
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Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.
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Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
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You little fool. You thought you could defeat the most powerful being on Earth.
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I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact ... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
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To overextend yourself is to invite defeat.
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Defeat would not be a shame, ... This is a competition.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
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Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.
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I have little art piece, a kind of short film thing I filmed with my friend. It's going to be 20 minutes, and we're going to submit it into festivals but also going to art galleries.
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I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.
