Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
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I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.
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Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.
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like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
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I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.
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I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
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I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.
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To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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Man's history is the story of his wanderings. Some epochs of the remote past have frequently been called 'periods of great migrations.' This terminology presumes that at other times migratory movements were at a standstill, especially in the case of a so-called 'sedentary' people. Every epoch is a period of "great migrations".
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People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.
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The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
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The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but it can be received, And sometimes a person may win it. Though not seen or heard it may be perceived, Like princes or bees it's in clover. The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And without it one cannot start over.
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Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
