Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.
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One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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Bart's voice Yo, what’s happenin' man, this is Bart Simpson laughs, normal voice ... Bart's voice Just kidding, don’t hang up, this is Nancy Cartwright.
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!
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There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.
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In general, I'm pretty shy and nervous about a lot of things. For me to get on stage for the first time took so many times at an open mic before I finally got on stage and did it.
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I try to give positive energy in all my shows.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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I am willing to work with anyone that wants to do what is best for this country.
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Things don't have to change the world to be important.
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I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.
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I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
