Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
Ted Danson
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
Rafael dos Anjos
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Barry Ritholtz
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
Waris Ahluwalia
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. Michael Straczynski
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi
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Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
Samuel Gompers
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Gary Becker
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My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.
Joel Grey
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Juggling a huge cast is a bear.
Mark Waid
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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
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Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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I always try to do something different and creative with my dress sense.
Karishma Tanna
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I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
Jhumpa Lahiri
