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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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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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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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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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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If you have debt, you have to worry about it. I would challenge each of you to try to be debt-free.
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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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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
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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.
