Amy Poehler Quotes
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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Just lead your life and try to make the best decisions.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature.
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Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.
