Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mankind
  • Peculiar
  • Transcend

• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Today
  • Best
  • inspirational

• If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Work
  • Job
  • Selfish

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• It's really hard to use a laptop when you only have half a lap.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Half
  • Only

• The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Sick
  • Memory

• We have deep depth.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Deep
  • Depth

• The dose makes the poison.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Poison
  • Makes
  • Dose

• Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Growth

• You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Children
  • Imagine
  • Sorrow

• The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Work

• Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• You can develop the right attitude toward others if you have kindness, love and respect for them, and a clear realization of the oneness of all human beings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Attitude
  • Kindness

• It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Character
  • Interest
  • Imagine