Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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Woman absent is woman dead.
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Jealousy does not wait for reasons.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the United States legally.
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The East will be seen to rush to the West and the South to the North in confusion round and about the universe, with great noise and trembling or fury.
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Cover-ups and deception are the nature of this society. Without lies it won’t exist.
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
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When I was coming up, it was the golden age. It was Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan, and Reese Witherspoon was starting. You really had, 'Who is America's Next Sweetheart?' every couple of years. And then this sort of bromance slacker thing took over.
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No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
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The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
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Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them.
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I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.
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We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.