Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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Scire mori sors prima viris, sed proxima cogi.
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I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
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Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.
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Guitar music or rock n' roll or whatever you want to call it sort of goes away with trends, but it'll never go away completely. It can't die because it's so fundamentally attractive.
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I had to pinch myself. I got the call and didn't expect it. And right up 'til nearly the end of filming, I was thinking, 'Am I actually doing a film with Akshay Kumar?' because I was a massive Akshay Kumar fan before, and the first film that I ever watched was his and Katrina's film, 'Namastey London.'
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If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.
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I've known Roger Ailes for 15 years, and I have been treated with the utmost professionalism and respect.
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When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
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The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
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If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.
