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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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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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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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
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I'm incapable of truly relaxing. I remember when I was younger and less wise or experienced, actors that I knew would always talk about jobs ending and wondering whether they were ever going to work again. Now that's my life.
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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.
