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.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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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.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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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.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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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.
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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.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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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.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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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.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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I'm against people downloading music.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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Why are you sad, Dorian?" He couldn't lie to her. "The leopard wants you to see it.
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The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.
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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.
