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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• Christmas
• Kindness

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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.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Economic
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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.

  

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

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
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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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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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
  • Man
  • Peace
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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
  • Man
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• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• 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
  • Love
  • America

• Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Lot
  • Gets
  • Cleveland

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• 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
  • Live
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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
  • Work
  • Strong

• 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
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Service

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

  

  Elisabeth Moss
  • Why

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

  

  Bindi Irwin

• No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

  

  Plato
  • Law
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• I like to think of bread as really bland cake.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Bread
  • Cake

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
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• Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

  

  Geoffrey Zakarian
  • Time
  • Food
  • Style

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• 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