Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

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Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Joan Fontaine

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I have mixed feelings about 'Car 54, Where Are You?' Because we shot it as a musical and whoever the studio head was at Orion, or whoever the powers that be were, cut all but, like, two musical numbers out of it. That is the same as cutting the musical numbers out of 'The Wizard Of Oz'; it wouldn't be that interesting.

John C. McGinley

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I think, in a large way, it's, 'OK, you've knelt; you've made your point.' But I don't necessarily feel like that. I don't know what that looks like. Do I kneel forever? I don't know, probably not. But I think until I can feel like I'm being more effective in other ways, then this seems appropriate to me.

Megan Rapinoe

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We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

John Lewis

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I remember telling Mom, 'I can't go to the Betty Ford Center. That's like going to the high school where your mom is the principal.' But maybe I could have gotten the family rate.

Steven Ford

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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Jason Fried

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I love to travel but hate traffic and planes. I wish I could just beam myself anywhere instantly.

Jordan Ladd

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You know, I do have a little Pollyanna in me.

Donna McKechnie

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I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a living. I never had to borrow from my parents. I was the first in our family to own a new car.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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The face of evil is always the face of total need.

William S. Burroughs

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My investments have been hurt.

Scott Adams

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I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

Tunde Adebimpe

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