Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied.
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
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Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.
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You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.
