Amy Poehler Quotes
When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
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I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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The organization of the Church should free us to express ourselves in infinite variations within the eternal guidelines that will keep us safe from self-destruction.
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Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
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When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.
