Amy Poehler Quotes
You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
Vanessa Marcil
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
Malala Yousafzai
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
H. G. Bissinger
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
Barbara Sukowa
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
Youssou N'Dour
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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.
Pat Conroy
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
Irvine Welsh
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B. B. King
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Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'
Eddie Redmayne
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
Gabrielle Reece
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
Larry David
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
Adam McKay
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Nile Rodgers Chic
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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.
Joan Allen
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I just tell people I'm a dolphin trainer. It's better for everyone.
Matthew Walker
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Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'
JoJo
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You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
Amy Poehler