Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
Narciso Rodriguez
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.
Frances O'Grady
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I come from an area where it's mostly, like, football and basketball, those are the sports. So my brother started surfing... I used to make fun of him for it, and then he challenged me to do it, and I'm a huge competitor, and I did it ,and I got hooked.
Manny Montana
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
Fatty Arbuckle
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
Taylour Paige
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
Sam Graves
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
Wagner Moura
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
Nancy Gibbs
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To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country.
Nancy Travis
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I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night.
Mac Miller
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Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
Brian Tracy
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Not until my fourteenth or fifteenth year did I begin to come across the word 'Jew,' with any frequency, partly in connection with political discussions.... For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.
Adolf Hitler
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A society whose moral ideas, inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral. In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality.
Randy Wayne White
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Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
Jhumpa Lahiri
