Junot Diaz Quotes

I mean, the nation in which we live - and the world in which we live - is so extraordinarily more like a future than the futures that we're being sold on the screen and on television.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I try to look on all the great things God's done, and not focus on the negative. It's a perspective.

Joel Osteen

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Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Robert Stone

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Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

Max Martin

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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

John Lennon

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Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

Michael Easton

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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

John Pople

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Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

Steve Blank

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My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

Steve Buscemi

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My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn't want to be associated with that?

Robin Chase

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New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

Moby

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