Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.Jhumpa Lahiri
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger -
The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
Radhanath Swami -
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
Zac Efron -
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. Forster -
When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
Adam Green -
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Qandeel Baloch
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In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Harold E. Varmus -
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
Young Jeezy -
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
Tecumseh -
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
Flo Rida -
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
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If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny -
In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
Earl Weaver -
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine -
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson -
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
T Bone Burnett
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
Jeff Tweedy -
Some people die, others just run out of fuel.
Carmen Boullosa -
With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.
Dale Earnhardt -
I've discovered that numerous peak performers use the skill of mental rehearsal of visualization. They mentally run through important events before they happen.
Charles Garfield -
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Jhumpa Lahiri