Amy Poehler Quotes
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I had to start being aware of what I ate, what I'm planning to eat and take my twice-daily medication accordingly. That's not so difficult now, but when you're 10 years old, it's tough, let me tell you.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.
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As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'
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I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
