Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!
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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
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All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.
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Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.
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The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn't normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you into the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be.
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She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.
