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

• To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • American
  • Happy
  • Culture

• 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

• Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm trying to be the best father and take care of my kids.

  

  Drew Lachey
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Father

• Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • History
  • Father
  • Violence

• We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • People

• 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