Amy Poehler Quotes
The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I know I look super young.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.
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In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.
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Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
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I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
