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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• 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.

  

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• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

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• One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

  

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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!

  

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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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• I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

  

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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.

  

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• Let's have some new cliches.

  

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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.

  

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• I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.

  

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• But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

  

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• Socrates said, 'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'

  

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• A broken wing simply means, you have to find another way to fly. Have a wonderful day people.

  

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• They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.

  

  William Francis Buckley
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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
  • People
  • Good
  • Think