Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

Carrie Fisher

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• First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

  

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• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  

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• A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.

  

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• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

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• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

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• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  

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• I had to do something for the country.

  

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• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

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• You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

  

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• The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.

  

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• I live out in the country now and it's quiet and it's a place where I can think a lot.

  

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• I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.

  

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• The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

  

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• Time only has value when it intersects with energy.

  

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• Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

  

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• I've been doing interviews for years, and in all that time, I've virtually never read one and gone, 'Yep, factually and tonally that's exactly what happened.' Pretty much never.

  

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• I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system - and group penalties if one of us slacks off.

  

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• Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

  

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• '2 Dope Queens,' it was just a way for us to showcase female comedians, showcase comedians of color, showcase LGBT comedians, and shake up the landscape and be like, 'Hey, there is more than just what is out there.'

  

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• ...there is the sheer emotional, intellectual, physical, chemical pleasure of your children. The honest truth is that the world holds no greater gratification than lying in bed with your children, putting your leg on top of them in a semi-crushing manner, while saying sternly, "You are a poo.

  

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• The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

  

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• The parrots are great. They do something I refer to as "the Phone Call from Venus." They repeat all my phone conversations. It can very annoying - like having a lot of children in the house screaming.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Children
  • House