Amy Poehler Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
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Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
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McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.
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When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.
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I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.
