Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

Carrie Fisher

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

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• I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

  

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• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

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• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

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• The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.

  

  Haile Selassie
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• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• I didn't have a childhood.

  

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• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
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• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Lot
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• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Life
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• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

• What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

  

  Jane Austen
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• More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

  

  Jim Wallis
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• Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

  

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• I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

  

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• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

  

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• Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

  

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• Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

  

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• How do you tackle Rob Gronkowski? You gotta hit him low, man - hit him in his knees. That's the best chance you have of hitting him.

  

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• You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

  

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• The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Feelings

• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Christmas
  • Kindness