"I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different."

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Jhumpa Lahiri

#Parent Quotes #Being Different Quotes #Different Quotes

“I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.”
“Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.”
“Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.”
“It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.”
“I just hope that my films will survive me.”
“We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.”
“I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.”
“It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.”

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