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What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#doing #done #enjoy #i #most

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#about #ago #asked #attitude #blond

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#before #better #future #life #like

This is not the Chile we want to build. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#chile #want

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#people #sync #things #well #won

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#actually #always #clothes #comment #cook

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#another #corresponded #fit #four #happened

He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#doctor #had #head #heard #him

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

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