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Amy Poehler Quotes

Total quotes: 58
“Well, I like porn, and I think that people should do whatever they want. But the point being that this generation is so—porn is so accessible that sometimes guys don’t actually connect to the person that’s in front of them.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Porn, Alienation, hookup culture
“Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head? Well, I know. Well, I know Riley’s head.”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Wonder, Head, Inside
“Time is money; Money is power; Power is pizza; Pizza is knowledge. Let’s go!”
— April Ludgate, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 6: Second Chunce
Tagged: humor, Funny, Power, Pizza, Knowledge, Money
“I'd wish you the best of luck but I believe luck is a concept created by the weak to explain their failures.”
— Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 6: Second Chunce
Tagged: Luck, Weak, Failures
“You can’t focus on what’s going wrong. There’s always a way to turn things around, to find the fun.”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Focus, Wrong, turn things around, Fun
“Yeah, as soon as I walk into a party, I just want to leave. I just want to go home. I think as I get older, I’ve just gotten more anxiety around other people. I don’t know, I just feel less interested in a lot of people’s energy.”
— Amy Poehler, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Introvert, party
“To some people, not caring is supposed to be cool, commenting is more interesting than doing, and everything is judged and then disposed of in, like, five minutes. I’m not interested in those kinds of people. I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Talks Feminism, Friendship, and Staying Away From Selfies
Tagged: People, Personality, Attitude, Committed, risking, Taking Chances
“Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler cracks jokes, offers life lessons in Harvard speech
Tagged: kindness, Brokenheart, Compassion, Understanding
“People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: human, Human Nature, Personality, Love, Bad, Good
“Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: opportunities, risks, chances
“I don't know what I'm doing. I was gonna go home and fuck this guy, but now I just feel so profoundly empty.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Russian Doll, I Feel Empty, I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here
“If I had to have anybody tell me that I have cancer, I would want it to be me.”
— Chris Traeger, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 4: The Debate
Tagged: cancer, tell me, Myself
“Hey, look! The Golden Gate Bridge, isn’t that great? It’s not made up of solid gold like we thought, which is kind of a disappointment. But still…”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Golden gate bridge, solid gold, Disappointment
“When I was 16, all I cared about was smashing the patriarchy and burning it down.”
— Lisa, Moxie
Tagged: Patriarchy, toxic masculinity, burn
“Lawrence: Hey park lady! You suck.

Leslie: Hear that? He called me park lady.”
— Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation, Season 1: Canvassing
Tagged: Lady, you suck, Insult, Optimistic
“Check your side mirror, check your rearview mirror, check the backseat for murders.”
— Annie, Duncanville, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Mirrors, check, Murder
“Thank you. It is so great to see you again. I gotta tell you, I’m such a huge fan of your work. Do you remember when you and Riley were in a band? I went to all of your concerts.”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: Great, huge fan, Band, concert
“My only official recommendations are US Army-issued mustache trimmers, Morton’s Salt, and the C.R. Lawrence Fein two-inch axe-style scraper oscillating knife blade.”
— Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 3: The Fight
Tagged: Mustache Trimmers, US Army, Morton's Salt
“Pawnee's Library Department is the most diabolical, ruthless bunch of bureaucrats I've ever seen. They're like a biker gang but instead of shotguns and crystal meth they use political savvy and shhhing.”
— Leslie Knope, Parks and Recreation, Parks and Recreation Season 2: Ron and Tammy
Tagged: Diabolical, Ruthless, Biker Gang, Political Savvy
“Steve, I would prefer to forego your input since it most recently resulted in my brother becoming fat, unemployed and growing that supremely antisocial beard.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: fat, unemployed, beard, Anti-Male
“Terri: Look at her, the slutty, wicked stepmother. You can practically see through that dress.

Red: I don't think so.”
— Terri Baker, Are You Here
Tagged: wicked stepmother, see-through dress
“Good or bad, the reality is most people become 'famous' or get 'great jobs' after a very, very long tenure shoveling shit and not because they handed their script to someone on the street.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Writing, How to be a writer
“The minute somebody makes you feel weird or non-included or not supported you know either to beat it or tell them to beat it.”
— Amy Poehler, 15 One-Sentence Dating Tips from Celebrities
Tagged: Dating Tips, Relationship Advice
“It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Vulnerable, Dreamers, Creators, Thinkers
“You have to care about your work but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Opinions, Passion
“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Feelings, emotions, Depression
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: currency, Happiness, sexiness, Life, Self-awareness, Letting Go
“Being in love is the worst. I mean it’s the best, but it's so hard and scary to open your heart to someone.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Gives Advice to Those Scared of Love
Tagged: Love, Scared, H4D-12
“I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"
Tagged: Bossy, Women, strength, feminism
“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: kindness, Alone, Friendship
“A person’s tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren’t one story. We can change our stories.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Tragedy, Change, Choices
“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: 20 somethings, Future, Career, Dreams, aspirations
“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be.”
— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Gets Real, Shares the Best Body Image Advice You May Hear From a Celeb
Tagged: Life
“Saying ‘yes’ doesn’t mean I don’t know how to say no, and saying ‘please’ doesn’t mean I am waiting for permission.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Permission, Personality
“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Career, Passion, Learning
“I just love bossy women. I could be around the all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.”
— Amy Poehler, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images
Tagged: Amy Poehler, Strong Women, Independent
“Creativity lives inside all of us.”
— Herself - Host, Making It, Season 1: Meet Your Makers
Tagged: Creativity, Life, live
“Metaphors are boring, like baseball.”
— Duncan, Duncanville, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: Metaphor, baseball, Boring, Simile Examples
“Fun is for suckers.”
— Nadia Vulvokov, Russian Doll, Season 1: Nothing in This World Is Easy
Tagged: Fun, Sucker, Loser
“Joy: Hey! You can’t throw those away! Those are perfectly good memories.

Mind Worker #2: The names of every Cutiepie Princess doll?

Joy: Yes. That is critical information. Glitter storm, Honey pants…”
— Joy (voice), Inside Out
Tagged: throw out, Memories, princess doll, critical information
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