Amy Poehler Quotes
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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It's nice to be short, because people expect less from you.
