Amy Poehler Quotes

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Amy Poehler

• Waiting
• Please
• Permission
• Yes

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• People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

  

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• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  

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• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

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• Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

  

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• Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

  

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• My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.

  

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• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

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• My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'

  

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• Yes, I love playing Mom.

  

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• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  

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• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

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• Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.

  

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• The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

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• At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.

  

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• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

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• We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, come out from the shadows, pay a fine, earn legal status by working, by paying taxes, learning English. Not committing crimes and earn legal status where you're not cutting in front of the line for people that are patiently waiting outside.

  

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• The Graces sought some holy ground, Whose sight should ever please; And in their search the soul they found Of Aristophanes.

  

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• Music is the first thing I didn't give up.

  

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• When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest - so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.

  

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• That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

  

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• Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Waiting
  • Please
  • Permission