Amy Poehler Quotes
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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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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If you have ever driven around London and seen the amount of one way systems... they basically rubbed out all car chase crime. In fact, if you get bank robberies in the U.K., they're using scooters.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
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Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
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Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.
