Amy Poehler Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
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Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
