Amy Poehler Quotes
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.
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I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
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It just feels amazing to have that moment when you realize things are coming together for your team.
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My dad was a really big baseball guy who helped coach me and thought the game should be played the right way.
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'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.
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I believe the assertion that every human life has an inherent and inalienable value will only be strengthened if we apply this principle to the morality of defending both convicted criminals and the lives of the unborn.
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I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.
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I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.
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A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.
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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
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Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.
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You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.
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... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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I do not improvise in heels.
