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• Fighting aging is like the War on Drugs. It's expensive, does more harm than good, and has been proven to never end.

  Amy Poehler

  War, Fighting, Drug

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.79, Pan Macmillan

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• So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• I hate to say this, but not everyone seems happy that you’re still alive,” Finn said, picking up on the glares coming my way. “You can’t please everyone,” I drawled. “And you know how much I hate to disappoint our dear friends in the underworld.

  Jennifer Estep

  Hate, Alive, Way

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• "I don't like this," he said. "I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg? I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want."

  Rachel Caine

  Sorry, Knowing, Forgive Me

  "Fall of Night". Book by Rachel Caine, April 24, 2013.

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• Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Helping, Help Yourself, Available

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Ends, Medieval War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1526.

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Faith

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• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  Octavia Spencer

  Dream, Art, Destiny

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• You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Trying, Messed Up, Please Yourself

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• 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

  Life, Mean, Waiting

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

  Amy Poehler

  Sorry, Healing, Years

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

  Amy Poehler

  Letting Go, People, Currency

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Sticking up for ourselves in the same way we would one of our friends is a hard but satisfying thing to do. Sometimes it works.

  Amy Poehler

  Way, Sometimes, Things To Do

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

  Marlee Matlin

  Choices, Made, Fine

  "Interview with Marlee Matlin Actress and Academy Award Winner". Interview with Doug Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. October 18, 2004.

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• If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

  Amy Poehler

  Lucky, Looks, Moments

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pride, People, Fake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know this year hasn't gone as we'd all like it. But please, please, everyone do not forget about that 2013 season - the worst to first, the tragedy of the Boston Marathon, everyone rallying around the city, the finish line, the duck boats, everything, celebrating at home. Might be down a little bit in the win/loss column right now, but do not let that erase any of those memories from last year that I get to wear a ring on my finger for. I'm proud to be a Red Sox for those times.

  Jonny Gomes

  Memories, Home, Loss

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• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• In my own case, I had to train myself out of that phony smile, which is like a nervous tic on every teenage girl. And this meant that I smiled rarely, for in truth, when it came down to real smiling, I had less to smile about. My 'dream' action for the women's liberation movement: a smile boycott, at which declaration all women would instantly abandon their 'pleasing' smiles, henceforth smiling only when something pleased them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Smile, Girl, Dream

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human duty: the duty to accept the consequences of our actions.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Liberty, Our Actions, Accepting

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• America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

  James Frey

  Religious, Order, Practice

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• There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.

  James Frey

  Art, Landscape, Categories

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• My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Difficult, Ifs

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