Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.
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I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
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A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as or more than he has contributed to him.
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The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.
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It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.
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'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'
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Sexy means loving someone you donot know.
