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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Cold Reaction Narrative Most

Do we want someone as secretary of state that is somehow tainted in this Benghazi issue?

Someone Want State Secretary Issue

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Job Philosophy You Satisfaction Up

Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907, fresh out of Princeton, Baskerville went to Iran as a schoolteacher. He found himself in the midst of a revolution against tyranny, and was carried away with passion for the democratic cause.

Life Passion Democracy Revolution

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Dance West Drumming Brown African

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Window World Learn Stock Market You

You can't go wrong with fish and chips.

Fish You Wrong Go Chips

Members of the LGBT community should feel welcome and know their rights are protected regardless of what state they reside in.

Community Welcome Feel Know Rights

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Bible Debate Prove Touch See Just

I always loved singing. No matter where I was, I would just make up my own stuff.

Singing Loved Matter My Own Always

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Father Miami Survival First Years

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

Yourself Me You Artist Out Going

My wife noticed that I wrote really good complaint letters about faulty products and that I could get anything I wanted out of these big corporations, and she said that I was a good writer and that I should go to my dad and ask him for help.

Good Wife Help Go Said Letters

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