Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

Jeremy Northam

LovedLivingWithoutSureWouldMet

I never really think too much about my voice.

Joel Edgerton

VoiceThinkToo MuchNeverMuchToo

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

Andra Day

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I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

Ann-Margret

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We can self-censor ourselves for various reasons, but we can't live in a world where some person or some group decides what's offensive and what's not.

Steve Breen

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Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Mary Harris Jones

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Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.

Joseph Needham

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As a kid, I was always inspired by the comedy of Carol Burnett. I loved Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon's 'Mama's Family'.

Del Shores

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I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

David Talbot

IntegrityBusinessInterestingSee

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

Bridget Fonda

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Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

Phoebe Philo

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