Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
Carrie Fisher
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
Vince Vaughn
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
J. B. Smoove
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
Victoria Abril
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell
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It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. Naipaul
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I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
Zachary Knighton
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Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.
T. J. Miller
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Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.
Randy Pausch
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It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else.
Eddie Cahill
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
Irvine Welsh
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It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
James Wolcott
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Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin as legend would have us believe. I think inspiration comes from concentration, and early on I learned about Mark Twain's habit of leaving for his study after breakfast and not reappearing until the end of the day, ready to read to his family what he had just written. That set a good example for me, although I didn't copy his habit of taking twelve cigars along.
William P. Perry
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Money is sensual.
Jerry Stiller
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There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.
Cenk Uygur
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We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when, beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashings of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a damned fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with that same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke the thought aloud, 'Why don't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrades, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.
Ernest Thayer
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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
Carrie Fisher
