Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMyselfMeAmericanMy Life

I'm probably a more intentional acoustic player than I am an electric player because of lack of influences. I just play acoustic to see what happens.

Joe Bonamassa

I AmPlayIntentionalMoreSeeJust

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

John Locke

ManPersonNobodyRightProperty

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

Robert M. La Follette

SilenceWarPartyRightDivine

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

Andy Samberg

SchoolCoolHigh SchoolComedyDoing

When you can make a good, strong musical connection with people, that's always there. That's not often that that happens.

Roscoe Mitchell

GoodPeopleStrongYouConnection

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Matt Bellamy

NatureThingsSongwriterExpress

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

Jay Nixon

TrustStressDemocracyThinkYou

All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.

Dick Van Dyke

YouLookStrangerOnlyMakeYounger

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

Dorothy Hamill

LifeWinningRealityPerfectGoing

My mom was on a soap opera for 40 years, so I know about love and romance.

Corbin Bernsen

LoveMomKnowOperaRomanceSoap

Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don't want to be coy about this.

Brian Schatz

I AmHatCountryWantCircumstances

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

Arto Lindsay

MusicKnowledgeMeInterestingDNA

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