Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up.

Jimmy Kimmel

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I have a remarkably normal life.

Michael J. Fox

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I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

Amish Tripathi

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Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

Steven Spielberg

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I love Christian Louboutin, but I can't walk in them yet.

Sofia Richie

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I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

Tom Odell

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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

Ron Perlman

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There are many critics who invite me on their show, and I have told them that when my film releases, you will give it one-and-a-half star rating. That's fine. There's no issue because stars will matter when I'm planning to open a five star hotel. When I'm making films, I don't need stars.

Rohit Shetty

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I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Roz Chast

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.

Jon Jones

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