Amy Poehler Quotes
Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
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I've always loved that, on all the Dylan and Springsteen and Marley and Neil Young reissues that they've done: It's so cool to hear alternate versions and how the song started in their mind.
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I'm nice with damn kids, man. Kids love me. I can bounce back and forth. I can discipline kids and I can get into the mind of a kid.
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There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
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Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
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Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'
