Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
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I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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More regulation is not the best answer to every problem.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.
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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.
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I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
