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.

Carrie Fisher

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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.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

• 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.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Band
  • Said
  • Going

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• 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.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• 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.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Doing

• 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.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Struggle
  • Luck

• 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.'

  

  OMI
  • Up
  • Different
  • Culture

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • You
  • Look
  • Where

• 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.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Responsibility
  • Fitness
  • Capable

• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Good
  • Women
  • Dream

• I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Song

• What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That's their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It's discrimination, plain and simple.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• Overall, I feel that southern cinema, in itself, has taken over the film industry with its content, stories and screenplay.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Taken

• Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

  

  David Augsburger

• I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • People
  • Help
  • High

• Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Fool

• 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.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Father
  • Boys
  • Flirting