Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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I was born in Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh, as my parents are both pandits from there. But I was brought up in Chandigarh.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
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We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.
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All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
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General systems theory is the scientific exploration of "wholes" and "wholeness" which, not so long ago, were considered metaphysical notions transcending the boundaries of science. Hierarchic structure, stability, teleology, differentiation, approach to and maintenance of steady states, goal-directedness — these are a few of such general system properties.
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I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
