Marvin Ammori Quotes
'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
Quotes to Explore
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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What I can't fit into my suitcase is probably something I don't need.
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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.
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I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.
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As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
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'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
