Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

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• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• In the future, I want to have super-fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Future
  • Want

• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Mother
  • Success

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Always

• I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Habit

• You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Care
  • Lucky
  • Medical

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Why
  • Me

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wrong
  • Very
  • Rare

• Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Help
  • Me
  • Always

• Within the U.S., you could have argued that most people who watch 'Mad Men' would watch 'House of Cards.' But the viewing is much more on par with the large-scale mainstream things like 'The Walking Dead.' It was much younger than we thought.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Men
  • House

• I'm a country girl at heart.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Girl

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Thoughts

• For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Eyes
  • Simple
  • Brain

• Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Bad
  • Habit

• Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Forever
  • Politics
  • Concern

• A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • Thinking