Marvin Ammori Quotes
In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine'.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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I understand that finance can be very complex.
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Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name.
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I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of skills, aligned with the curriculum. Social and emotional skills are important but skills are too. I find it heartbreaking that this is so often seen as an either-or choice. To get to the richness of studying literature, for example, you must first be an adept and confident reader. Whether you are is something a good test can measure.
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In 2011, mobile data traffic in the United States was eight times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. That's traffic.
