Marvin Ammori Quotes

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Marvin Ammori

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ChangePeopleLawDemocracyPowerful

You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin

TodayCultureHappyGrowGoalPig

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Max Azria

YouPriceSayPointPositionSell

Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people.

Matthew Moy

PeopleMePictureActingNowLiving

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Steve Buscemi

AnimalPrisonThinkYouCooperation

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Strom Thurmond

MindBetterDoubtSegregationOpen

Nevada Energy doesn't lose money. The gaming industry loses money. It employs all the people. It pays all the taxes. And if you take the P&L, the profit and loss, of the hotels in Las Vegas and Reno, it is a number that is minus, not plus, minus.

Steve Wynn

MoneyPeopleEnergyLossVegasLose

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Marvin Hamlisch

MusicPeopleEveningPlayWhole

I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.

Chloe Benjamin

NatureKnowledgeScienceReligion

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

Brendon Urie

WishI WishUpStraightMercury

I need work. I still audition for work. I don't get offered things out of nowhere. I have to work hard, still, and I get a lot of rejections. It just goes on and on.

Bojana Novakovic

WorkWork HardNeedHardOutThings

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Bruce Sterling

ShadowStartDataYouInformation

If I didn't believe that I could win titles with Dortmund, then I wouldn't be here.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

WinBelieveTitlesHereThenCould

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