Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.
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Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
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Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1
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I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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This is not a time for America to 'believe in magic.' This is a time to drive education forward. This is a time to drive the economy forward. This is a time to drive America forward. We must do it together. And we must re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
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I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.
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Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.
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There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
