Amy Poehler Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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I don't intend to die.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.
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What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to God.’ – Anon.
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I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
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Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
