Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

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• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• 'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Model

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• Gentlemen, start your egos.

  

  Billy Crystal

• The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Important
  • History
  • Professional

• The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song

• Like most boys, I had a model train set up in my bedroom, resting on a little-used ping-pong table upstairs.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Up
  • Model

• The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

  

  Kim Jong Il
  • Family
  • Revolution

• I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Up
  • Law

• As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Support
  • Sacrifice

• I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

  

  Bobby Moynihan
  • Mind
  • Smart

• Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Music
  • Men
  • Women

• Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games.

  

  Asafa Powell
  • People

• I knew I wasn't going to write a record as soon as I got signed, because I hadn't had any life experiences. I was still at school, and I wasn't going to write about that.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Life
  • School

• The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith

• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People
  • Happy

• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

  

  John Huston
  • World
  • Together
  • Small

• I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Like
  • Child
  • Embarrassing

• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  

  James Payn
  • Literature
  • Driving
  • Humble

• I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Trying