Amy Poehler Quotes
It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.
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In America , there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
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I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.
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It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.
