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Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Relationship You Look Group Way

My story is the American Dream, a hundred percent.

Jeremy Scott

American Dream Story American Dream

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Andrew Carnegie

Money Nothing Class Else Which

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Commitment Past Challenges Now Why

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Jeffrey Bernard

Good Cricket Go Want Reason Gone

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

Spike Jonze

Intelligence Artificial Intelligence

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

Steven Wright

Bridge You Talk Him Radio Walks

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

Tom Noonan

Life Think You Back Play Forget

I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

Michael Phelps

Water Back Excitement Get Been Able

Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'

Jay Asher

Bullying Growing Up You Look Back

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Dorothy Hamill

People Me Hair Short Short Hair

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.

Colson Whitehead

Live Brooklyn Cheap Rent Years Here

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Bruno Mars

You Look See 1950s Sharp Era