Amy Poehler Quotes
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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The rise of the Internet and the camera phone have started to change what stories are accessible.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.
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‘They’ll be in all our houses,’ I said, ‘blackies of all colours, before the century’s over. The new world belongs to Asia.
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America has two clear tiers of workers: contractors and employees. The former have few regulatory protections; the latter have many.
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More than half of pregnant women in the U.S. are obese, which leads to complications like hypertension, gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
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One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle Pfeiffer told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.
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Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
