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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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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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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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.
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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.
