Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

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• The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Free
  • Beauty
  • Lunch

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• Actors, after all, dream.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Dream
  • After

• The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Small
  • Risk
  • Creative

• Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Never
  • Used
  • Presence

• It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Morning

• Much of our brainpower goes unused, and many people could benefit greatly from optimizing their mental assets.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Many
  • Mental

• Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • True
  • Career

• 'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Grow

• You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Pretty
  • Adversity
  • Monday

• I'm trying to make the world a more open place.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • World
  • Trying

• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • School
  • Age

• While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • Real
  • Done
  • Boss

• We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • World
  • Done
  • Business

• You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Life
  • Live
  • Goals

• I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Business

• As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Prayer

• The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Way
  • Searching
  • Distrust

• I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

  

  Ernesto Cardenal
  • Poetry
  • Write

• The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Church
  • Imagine
  • Gospel

• In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

  

  Carrie Fisher