Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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This is serious, and you gotta keep your mind open in case an idea comes along-you want there to be some room for it to fit in.
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He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.
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The 'enduring theme' in fiction of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.
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I gave myself until I turned 25 to make it. And if it didn't happen, I thought I'd just try to find a nice husband.
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A great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.
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Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
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I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.
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I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.
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"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
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I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.
