Amy Poehler Quotes
I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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Mathematics is the music of reason.
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For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.
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I dazzle you with that footwork.
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I haven't had a chance to decorate my dressing room yet, but I have these pictures of myself as a kid that I want to put up because I said, 'I really want to make sure that I take that kid with me on this journey.' I want him to experience this.
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The daughter can become the mother's opportunity either to make up for the past and right wrongs or to exact retribution for her losses. The mother's own experience of the long-ago family serves as an overlay to her mothering: Past and present are inextricably intertwined.
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I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do.
