Amy Poehler Quotes

Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

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• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

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• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

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• Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

  

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

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• Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

  

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• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

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• I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

  

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• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

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• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

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• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

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• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

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• It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

  

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• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

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• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

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• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

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• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

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• There is a fine circumstance connected with the character of a Cynic,-that he must be beaten like an ass, and yet when beaten must love those who beat him, as the father, as the brother of all.

  

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• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

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• I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

  

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• Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

  

  Amy Poehler
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  • War
  • Fighting