Amy Poehler Quotes
So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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The melded nature of space and time is intimately woven with properties of light speed. The inviolable nature of the speed of light is actually, in Einstein's hands, talking about the inviolable nature of cause and effect.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
