Amy Poehler Quotes
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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X Out is perfect for my schedule. It is so simple, fast and actually works. I am more confident in my own skin and always camera ready - a necessity in my line of work.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom, Portuguese and French Canadian. There's a lot going on there.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.
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I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.
