Amy Poehler Quotes
Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Small government is beautiful.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.
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Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don’t worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys.
