Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.Jhumpa Lahiri
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
Sally Watson -
Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
Nancy Johnson -
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer -
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
Sam Trammell -
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Rahm Emanuel -
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
Sam Graves -
I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
Imelda May
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector -
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
Van Morrison -
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Kate Christensen -
If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Gary Sinise -
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
Fiona Shaw
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen -
I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it.
Lauren Lapkus -
I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. And that's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.
Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons -
I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time...
David Bowie -
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
Jhumpa Lahiri