Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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Think and grow rich.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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Let's dispel this fiction once and for all that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing; he's undergoing a systematic effort to change this country and make America more like the rest of the world. If I'm elected we'll embrace what makes America the greatest country in the world.
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His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?
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What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.
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It's something I've always been passionate about - which is the power of rock and roll itself. I'm a walking example of its power, 'cause I was totally altered in the seminal years of Live by bands like U2 and R.E.M., U2 in particular.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.
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The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.
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Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.
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Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.
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A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.
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The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
