Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
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Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.
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It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!
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There are people today who look to fear to take us out of fear. But I believe that there are many, many more people who would look to love.
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Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.
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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
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Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
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Normally we will say we are happy or we are unhappy. I have met some people who told Me, "Oh we went to that Guru we were very happy." I said, "You could be happy in the pub also. What is happiness?" Happiness is not the way to judge any one, neither unhappiness. Unhappiness comes to you through this super ego and happiness through this ego. But joy has no double face, joy is joy. In joy, you witness, you witness the whole thing. And when you are joyous you feel the whole thing, the joy itself coming on you like grace falling on to you. It's so beautiful that you just get lost into it.
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The difficult child is the child who is unhappy. He is at war with himself; and in consequence, he is at war with the world.
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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.
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Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.
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Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.
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A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
