Amy Poehler Quotes
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
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Fay: Have you given a thought to the priest?Truscott: We can't have him in on it, miss. Our percentage wouldn't be worth having.Fay: Mr McLeavy threatened to expose us.Truscott: I've been exposed before.Fay: What happened?Truscott: I arrested the man. He's doing twelve years.
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Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.
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He's pretty darned good. I think he's as good as anyone in the county.
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Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.
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I like to know what's in my food and in my drinks. It's really important for me.
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Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.
