Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
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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.
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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.
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While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.
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The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.
