Amy Poehler Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a woman's, his moderation of spirit, which not all the heat of party could inflame, nor all the jars and disturbances of this country shake out of its place: I swear you to an emulation of his justice, his moderation, and his mercy.
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A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.
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I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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You deserve love and you'll get it.
