Carrie Fisher (Carrie Frances Fisher) Quotes
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes -
Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
Kate Moss -
I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
Valerie Plame -
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
Fabiola Gianotti
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In back of the outward calm … a small terrified voice cries out: 'I need it. I have to have it or ...' The end of the sentence is lost in chaos. The need is so strong that an illusion is created that it must be fulfilled, or the very existence of the self is threatened.
Sam Keen -
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
Alicia Witt -
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell -
I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.
Matt Lauer -
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.
Kenneth Frampton -
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
Anthony Hamilton -
If you're lucky enough to be involved in a film that's about something very real and that you hope will continue to hold up in 20 years' time it just gives you more energy and makes it feel all the more worthwhile.
Eric Bana -
One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.
Chris Hadfield
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My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.
Meaghan Rath -
What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
William Butler Yeats -
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.
Louise Erdrich -
What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?
Debra Granik -
Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert -
Come to think of [a handsome young carpenter], Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter.
Carrie Fisher