Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

Carrie Fisher

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• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Art
  • Style
  • Characters

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Mean
  • Restaurant
  • Belong

• One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Wish
  • Try
  • Step

• One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Done
  • She
  • Bad

• Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Great
  • May
  • Parents

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Compassion

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Honest
  • Strange
  • Most

• My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Along

• I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Love
  • Child
  • Eat

• I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Live
  • Try
  • Islam

• 'Bird and beast and stone and star - we are all one, all one -' murmured the Hamadryad, softly folding his hood about him as he himself swayed between the children. 'Child and serpent, star and stone - all one.'

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Star
  • Bird

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• I grew up in Kentucky, so we do not have a pro team. My family was split between the Cubs and the Reds. I would say I go Cubs usually. That's sort of where I grew up. My older brother was a huge Reds fan.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Team

• In 1996, I was the head coach at Brigham Young University. And I got a call from my dad, and he said my brother had been murdered by du Pont. And it just infuriated me to just no end. And I think I destroyed everything in my office.

  

  Mark Schultz
  • Dad
  • Brother

• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Quality

• I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Music
  • Silence

• I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • Real
  • Faith

• I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Brother
  • Shotguns