Amy Poehler Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?
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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
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I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business, and having a high-performing body.
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You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.
