Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.Jhumpa Lahiri
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
Zach Anner -
I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
Nate Diaz -
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.
Ione Skye
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
Barbara Demick -
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein -
The art of love is who you share it with.
Neil Diamond -
I'm fine. Just got to take it easy and not overdo it.
Gary Sheffield -
I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country.
Barack Obama -
I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend
Dalai Lama
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A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.
Donald Faison -
She simply stood there and waited for him to show her the next move. And hoped it only involved sword fighting and not seduction.
Christie Craig -
There is no evidence before him to support that allegation.
Jean Chretien -
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an algebraic object, so I must say goodbye to my home village, the space, but I will always keep it in my heart as a set of maximal ideals.
Kato -
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
Barbara Walters -
I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
Patrick Ness
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Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of.
Barack Obama -
She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.
Jhumpa Lahiri