Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.
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I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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I think I have good judgment.
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I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
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If you can't be president - if you cannot stand up and represent Americans, you should not be president.
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I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.
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I don't want to have to do production, which is very technical. I don't enjoy that.
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The banked oval tracks are obsolete tracks for Indy cars.
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'Paranormal Activity' was the first of our independently made/studio-released films. It was also the ultimate low-budget high-concept movie, which is what we are always looking for. 'Paranormal Activity' was the genesis of our model, of which I am so proud.
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
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My favorite special skill on my resume is 'excellent monkey noises.'
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Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
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Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.
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You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
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Historically, science and society have gone separate ways, although society has provided the funds for science to grow, and in return, science has given society all the material things it enjoys.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.
