Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

Carrie Fisher

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• You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Why
  • Change
  • Three

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Women
  • Chance

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

  

  Questlove
  • Up
  • Beauty
  • Point

• This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Player
  • Vision

• The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

• I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.

  

  May-Britt Moser
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Hand

• It's very easy for people to say what's wrong with education in Arizona, but if I'm elected as governor, I want to focus on what we're doing well and maximizing the impact of what we know is working.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • People
  • Education
  • Focus

• Listening is more than being quiet. Listening is much more than silence. Listening requires undivided attention. The time to listen is when someone needs to be heard. The time to deal with a person with a problem is when he has the problem. The time to listen is the time when our interest and love are vital to the one who seeks our ear, our heart, our help, and our empathy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Help

• Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Business
  • Night
  • Manner

• I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Money
  • Fun

• Actresses are usually either the love interest or the glam quotient in a movie, but I play a strong character in 'Dishoom' who is at par with the guys, thanks to director Rohit Dhawan and his out-of-the-box thinking.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Movie

• Look,' he said, 'I don't think we should continue this discussion. I don't like this side of you.' 'I'm not a box,' she said 'I don't have sides. This is it. One side fits all. This is it.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Fit
  • Discussion