Junot Diaz Quotes

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 31, 1968

Topics

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I was a dance major at NYU, but it wasn't working out. I had friends in the drama department, so I switched.

Maura Tierney

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If you want to beat the No. 1 player in the world, you have to give everything.

Stan Wawrinka

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I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

Robin Williams

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Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

Martina Navratilova

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Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.

Dimebag Darrell

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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

Chris Cornell

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I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.

Chris Martin

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I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I'd had more hang time with my dad.

Woody Harrelson

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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

William Golding

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The decision to join Stripe and run 'Increment' was a pretty easy one for me: It was an opportunity to be impactful, to collect and share best practices from the most effective engineering teams in the world. 'Increment' is a step toward flattening the distance between the Silicon Valley elite and developers everywhere.

Susan Fowler

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Tommy Smothers is a hero of mine.

Penn Jillette

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I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

Tim Berners-Lee

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