Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

  

  Randall Park
  • Kind
  • Stupid
  • Offensive

• When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Great
  • Food
  • Down

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I fight because I like challenges.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Like
  • Fight
  • Challenges

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Looking

• I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Create
  • Based

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  

  Albert Pike
  • World
  • Done
  • Alone

• My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Blue

• I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Thinking
  • Say
  • Curtsey

• I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

  

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
  • I Believe
  • Wars
  • Submarines

• If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Thinking
  • Fans
  • Selling