Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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Words that weep and tears that speak.
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My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator. I am not one of those.
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Say, if I hadn't been sick last summer, I'd have broken hell out of that home run record! Besides, the President gets a four-year contract. I'm only asking for three.
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I was the boss of ambassadors in 270 countries.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.
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I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.
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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
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You remind me of everything that followed.
