Amy Poehler Quotes

Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

Amy Poehler

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  

  E. B. White
  • Genius
  • More
  • Intelligence

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Fall
  • Three

• I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Myself
  • Always
  • See

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Future
  • Small
  • Community

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • World
  • Different
  • Words

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• It was a labor of love and they did really well.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Love
  • Really
  • Labor

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Home
  • Dream
  • Control

• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • People
  • College
  • Year

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I don't think I could have a genuine relationship with someone who didn't love to travel and appreciate new foods. Traveling is a big part of my life, and I want to share that with the people close to me.

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• We went back, afterward, after the show was over that night, I took my kids backstage and said, 'You know what? I know my dad's songs...'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Dad

• Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Experience
  • Leadership

• I love it. I'd do it again any time, and I'm sure we'll do it for other records. It was awesome. We met cool people and got some really good songs out of it.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.

  

  Paula Deen
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Live
  • Smile