Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
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I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!
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I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.
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I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the Luddites. Im happiest when Im behind the kit.
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"Parisienne" is about how you forge a life in a new place when you are 18. And it's about a Lebanese girl who discovers Paris and the French in the 90s, and through these encounters, discovers herself.
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Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
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Being human is a lot more difficult than being on tour.
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You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.
