A. R. Ammons Quotes
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.
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When I think of Italy now, I think of accessories, possessions, bad TV, fake boobs, BMWs.
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I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
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I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.
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Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
