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.
Viggo Mortensen -
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Aaron Paul -
When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
Ed Case -
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
Carl Hagelin -
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.
Kate Thompson
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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.
Palaniappan Chidambaram -
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
Daisy Fuentes -
I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey -
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.
Major Owens -
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.
Karen Thompson Walker -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan
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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.'
Rachel Nichols -
A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
Iqbal Quadir -
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.
Malcolm Bradbury -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin -
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
Ralph Bakshi
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The first job I ever had in my life was in the Dade County Sheriff's Office in the Identification Bureau in the summer that I graduated from high school and was getting ready to go to college.
Janet Reno -
Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton -
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
Carl Jung -
I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.
Dido Armstrong -
I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
B. B. King -
I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.
Amy Poehler