Amy Poehler Quotes

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Way
  • Islam

• I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Brother
  • Actor
  • Well

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Now
  • Disney

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

  

  Wendy Liebman
  • Women
  • She
  • Funny

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Way
  • Purpose
  • Natural

• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Incredible

• I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Way
  • Listening
  • Blow

• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Intuition

• Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Television

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

  

  Billy Kennedy
  • Control
  • Play
  • Athlete

• Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Community
  • Single
  • Day

• The minute you're born, you're getting older.

  

  Doris Roberts

• President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • America
  • Energy

• The happiest people are those with the fewest regrets. It is not because they have succeeded in everything they've tried; rather, they're happier because they at least put forth the effort - win or lose -and tried to make their thoughts and dreams a reality.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Reality
  • Effort
  • Inspiration

• You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Way
  • Control
  • Actor