Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
Carrie Fisher
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Any team can have a bad century.
Jack Brickhouse
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
Immanuel Kant
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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In my books I have lifted bits from various religions in trying to come to a better understanding; I've made use of religious themes and symbols. Now, as the world becomes more pagan, one has to lead people in the same direction in a different way.
Patrick White
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If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?
Tad Williams
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It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.
Isaac Asimov
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
Dambisa Moyo
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People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.
Chuck Klosterman
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When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.
Jimmy Carter
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When you shine bright, some won't enjoy the shadow you cast.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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You are asking yourself, as all of us must: 'Who am I?' . . . 'Where am I?' . . . 'Whence do I go?' The process of enlightenment is usually slow. But, in the end, our seeking always brings a finding. These great mysteries are, after all, enshrined in complete simplicity.
William Griffith Wilson
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It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.
Keegan-Michael Key
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If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.
Pablo Picasso
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For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'
Arthur Holly Compton
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I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.
Carrie Fisher
