Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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Indian cricket fans are manic-depressive in their treatment of their favorite teams. They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep, and every weakness is dissected.
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Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
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Once you lose that fear, good stuff can happen because you're not in your head about whether it will suck. Once you don't care and accept that it probably will suck, then it probably won't suck.
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Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fineHere comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on timeThere go the street lights bringin on the nightHere come the men faces hidden from the lightAll through the shadows they come and they goWith only one thing in commonThey got the fire down below.
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I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
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My wife was born in Korea, and we met in music college; she was there for vocal, and I was there for drums.
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I've realised I can be happy.
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I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
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Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
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I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip.
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What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
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I'm insanely close to my sister.
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Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
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Sometimes I'll meet somebody, and they've looked me up online or whatever, and they've never heard me talk or met me. I think they expect me to be a lot darker than I am and maybe less - not less friendly - but I guess I'm drawn to that dark emotional music. Maybe they think I'm a little more brooding.
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What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
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If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
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One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.
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Do what I will never do.
