Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!
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For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.
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I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
