A Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing — © Jhumpa Lahiri
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.
We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.
One thing I know about the rich, being rich, is that you can take money from me and tomorrow, I'm still going to be rich.
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing.
I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.
The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.
I realized we're all perfectly imperfect, which was a big thing. Perfectionism, to me, was an important thing.
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
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