Amy Poehler Quotes
I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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Oh, I don't keep a journal. How you remember an incident is dictated by your emotional state at the time. How you receive the information that is coming in is definitely based on your history and who you are.
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When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
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You don't get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.
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I've failed once or twice real big, independent.
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What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
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I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.
