Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes

I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

Carrie Fisher

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• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Idea

• Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Way
  • Say
  • Only

• It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Job
  • True

• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Country
  • Day

• Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • May
  • You
  • Space

• You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.

  

  Eminem
  • Baby
  • Bird

• I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Game

• I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Great

• Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

  

  Jerry Weller
  • Life
  • Mother

• The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

  

  Ken Stott

• Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Up
  • Home
  • Husband

• Everything comes out of what works for me.

  

  Donna Karan

• We don't want to be the standard thing. We're more interested in having people hate us than glaze over us. We'd rather have a reaction than be in the middle.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • People
  • Hate

• My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Achieve

• The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Obedience
  • Complete

• I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Remember
  • Food
  • Lost

• I've just written this six-part sketch comedy series, which I've never done before. And I don't know how to pitch it. Am I supposed to just pick up a camera and put stuff on YouTube? Is that how it works?

  

  David Alpay
  • Up
  • Done
  • Comedy

• I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Crazy
  • Attitude