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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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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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The TECH Careers Act will open the door for more Americans to have successful middle-class careers and help small businesses in Connecticut and across the country access a qualified pool of talented workers.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'
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As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
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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.
