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.

Carrie Fisher

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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.

Victor LaValle
- Time
- School
- Bad
You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

Gaines Adams
- You
- Know
- Mark
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.

Wale
- Up
- Music
- Song
If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

Abhishek Bachchan
- People
- Money
- Job
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.

Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Important
- Mind
- Together
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.

T. C. Boyle
- Up
- God
- Culture