Junot Diaz Quotes

My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterTruthManMeBetterWay

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

Johann Lamont

ChangePartyWantWayChangingOnly

President Obama wants a climate deal and is willing to pay dearly to get it.

John Barrasso

PresidentPayGetDealWilling

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

LifeFailureGrowthFutureLiveYou

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Robert Graves

LoveStatusMustAmateurStrictly

I don't think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I'm in my office by myself, or I'm in my writers' room with my people. I've chosen a job in which there's no competition allowed. It's probably best for everyone.

Shonda Rhimes

MyselfBestJobCompetitionPeople

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Tori Amos

YouSometimesNeedInspirationTake

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is headed.

Tom Rath

PeopleOrganizationKnowMoreNeed

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

AttitudeRevolutionPoliticalMean

Thinking about free speech brought me to media regulation, as Americans access so much of their political and cultural speech through mass media. That led me to work on the FCC's media ownership rules beginning in 2005 to fight media consolidation, working with those at Georgetown's IPR, Media Access Project, Free Press, and others.

Marvin Ammori

WorkBeginningFightMeThinking

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

Joshua Bell

TimeThinkFeelArtistImportant

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

Chris Hughes

LearnSolutionPovertyMagicYou

I've got a bulletin for you, folks. I am no superman. I realize that now, but I didn't always.

Chuck Norris

I AmYouNowSupermanRealizeGot

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