Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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War is the continuation of politics by other means.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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Sex is nostalgia for sex.
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In the U.S., these sights are no longer a surprise to me. I see army generals, captains of industry, and politicians of all colours and creeds on American television.
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The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?
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I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
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People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
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I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.
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I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.
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A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.
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Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical Seitenwechsel interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
