Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by you as an actor.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.
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The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
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On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.
