Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

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• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Big

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Live
  • Adventure

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Powerful

• I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Fanatic
  • Star Trek

• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Unpredictable

• One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Daily
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Great
  • War
  • Picture

• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Good
  • Team
  • Good Things

• By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

  

  O. Henry
  • Nature
  • Habit
  • Choice

• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Never
  • Early

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake

• With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Life
  • Father
  • Everyday

• I'm like a guy hanging down from a horse's belly trying to establish control. On a scale of 1 to 100, I'm at 1, and I'm trying to get to 2. The older I get, the more I enjoy control, because I've lived out of control for a long, long time.

  

  Jamey Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like, escapist.

  

  Jesmyn Ward

• You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.

  

  Sarah Breedlove

• He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Father
  • Guy
  • Mad