Amy Poehler Quotes

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Know
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Life
  • Fire
  • Will

• 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.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Night
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Taken

• 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.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• 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.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• 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.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Live
  • Heart
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • She
  • Character

• The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Dangerous
  • Crime
  • Expansion

• Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Human

• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Before
  • Luxury
  • Printing

• When computer systems cause errors, you can end up with The Dreaded NIGO - the 'not in good order' transaction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• 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.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Good
  • Money
  • Fun

• 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.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Miracles

• 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.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • You
  • Turn
  • Once

• The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

  

  America Ferrera
  • Truth
  • America
  • Wish

• I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Great
  • Dance

• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Artist
  • Dance
  • Human

• If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

  

  Keith Barry

• I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Shoes

• You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Dance
  • Strand