Amy Poehler Quotes
Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.
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This is precisely why you choose to run for office and get elected. You're asking the people to let you be their voice. I don't think there is a more powerful and intense experience than the opportunity to be the voice of the 307 million people living in this country.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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My health is fine.
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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No two wars are identical.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?
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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
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Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.
