Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
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I converted Dec. 31, 1999. It was a Friday. That was my second time going to the mosque. The woman who is my wife now... was basically raised Muslim - and she was at that point where she was deciding or trying to come to terms with her own relationship with Islam and how to embrace that for herself.
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There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
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Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
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With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.
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Former Senator Al D'Amato in 1991 offered an amendment to cap credit card interest rates at 14 percent.
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When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing.
