Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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I'm not graceful.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
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I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love
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Everything in moderation, like calories.
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Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.
