Amy Poehler Quotes
I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'
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I'm just going to do what I do, and people will like it, or they won't.
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
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I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.
