Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren’t quite so simple.

  

  Ann Leckie
  • People
  • Simple

• Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Dance
  • Gossip
  • Hamlet

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Music

• In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.

  

  Christen Press
  • Time
  • Player

• Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Trump

• I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Brain

• Some people kind of are afraid of me.

  

  Lele Pons
  • People

• I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

  

  Dylan Minnette

• When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Work
  • Game
  • Health

• It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mountain

• We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.

  

  Albio Sires
  • Real
  • America
  • Health

• Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • Great

• More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.

  

  Brock Yates

• You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Country
  • You
  • Own

• I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Mind
  • Religious

• Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.

  

  Brahmananda Saraswati
  • Missing
  • Yoga
  • State

• Books … hold within them the gathered wisdom of humanity, the collected knowledge of the world's thinkers, the amusement and excitement built up by the imaginations of brilliant people. Books contain humor, beauty, wit, emotion, thought, and, indeed, all of life. Life without books is empty.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  

  Carrie Fisher
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