Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I always played to win.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
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You want to win the games, to win trophies.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.
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Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
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Sometimes you want to skate along or just get by or fly under the radar, but sometimes you have to stand up and let your voice be heard and give it your best and give it your all. As a mother of young children, that's something I've tried to emphasize and highlight for them.
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'People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.'
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I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
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There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life and raised children and had horrible relationships and lost all her money and got it back again.
