Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
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For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
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Surround yourself with amazingly intelligent men and women. The people I work with not only are smarter than I am, possessing both intellectual and emotional intelligence, but also share my determination to succeed. I will not make an important decision without them.
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Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
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I guess I do carry a bit of male energy. It's like what I always say - two yangs don't make a right.
