Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

Carrie Fisher

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• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Stand

• Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • True
  • Sex

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• The crowd can be a little different in some places. For example, in Europe, people tend to be very respectful. They try not to make too much noise at inappropriate times. In other countries, people can be very still. Sometimes I'm not sure if a crowd is into it until the end, when they usually want me to do something crazy for the encore.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Different
  • Crazy

• I think it's really important to live in the moment.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Important
  • Live
  • Moment

• We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.

  

  Warren Farrell

• It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

  

  Livy
  • Guilty

• I write a lot, but it's not all fantastic. There's plenty of terrible crap. We work on a few things at a time, let some things fall away, make changes. We certainly have enough for the next album, which could take at least another year to come out.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fall

• Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labor of slaves.

  

  James Madison
  • Wishes

• Quite recently, to his horror, he had realized he would have to get a job. He was therefore studying to become a barrister, in the hope that he would find some pleasure in keeping as many criminals as possible at large.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Job
  • Hope

• We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Business
  • Model
  • Shopping

• I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

  

  Cliff Curtis
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Wish

• Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've put some thought into the answer, and it can be boiled down one word: consequences. Well, maybe two words: consequences and characters. Or perhaps, consequences, characters, and the subconscious mind - above all the subconscious mind.

  

  Katharine Kerr
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing.

  

  Eliyahu Goldratt

• I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Done
  • Home
  • Past

• I was depressed for a long time. If you’re depressed long enough, it’s almost a comfort, a state of mind that you’ve made peace with because you’ve been in it so long. It’s a very selfish world.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• Eventually, life of the party is just like any other job. I've thought of myself that way at times, but it's sort of like holding everybody hostage. It diminishes everyone else. And ultimately, your friends don't require it of you.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Party
  • Hostage