Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Good

• The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Model

• Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

  

  John Eaton
  • Drama
  • Greek

• I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

  

  Genevieve Valentine
  • Good
  • Age
  • Beginning

• I was doing a bit that stupid people should be slapped. But the more I did it, the more I didn't like that connotation, the violence and all that. The more I thought about it, I thought they should just wear signs. And, man, it just took off.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Violence
  • Stupid

• I don't believe there are climate skeptics. I think there are people who indulge in a culture of what can be reduced to Fox network thinking. That has nothing to do with the politics that apply to the protection of quality of life in any sense. It's like talking to a member of a cult.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Protection

• Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Mind
  • Nature

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Position
  • Employee

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

  

  Carrie Fisher
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