Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.Carrie Fisher
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
Larry Ellison -
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson -
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
Nancy Gibbs -
When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
Natalie Cole -
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
Larry Hagman -
My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
Fergus Henderson
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I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race. Having children changed my life and segregated me from just about everybody and everything that was going on. Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses.
Bob Dylan -
Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
Aldo Leopold -
Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.
David Suzuki -
I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.
Chelsea Handler -
Democracy derailed is democracy denied.
Chaka Fattah -
There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.
Ed Kowalczyk
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
Ed Kowalczyk -
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
Bernard Beckett -
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
Dara Khosrowshahi -
'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color.
Angela McGlowan -
I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.
Katherine Jenkins -
I know I'm known for dramas, but around my family and friends, I'm really goofy! Not saying I'm necessarily funny, but I'm very goofy.
Kylie Bunbury
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My thing is music, period.
Marc Anthony -
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
Elizabeth Berg -
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
Cornelia Parker -
I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long - it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.
Carrie Fisher