Junot Diaz Quotes

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.

Junot Diaz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If we want to be proud to be from a country like America and all the things that we hang our hats on, like diversity, equality, land of the free and home of the brave, it's everybody's responsibility to ensure that everyone in the country is being afforded the same rights.

Megan Rapinoe

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When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

Roger Rees

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Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

Jay Mohr

SportsMindEveryoneComeLikes

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

Jason Isbell

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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Don Nickles

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You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

Davinia Taylor

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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.

Christopher McQuarrie

FeelPartyAlwaysOutsiderNerd

Even in your darkest moments, you'll think of something that'll crack you up.

Brad Paisley

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It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Sometimes you make a connection with a writer or a piece of material, and there's not much to ask.

Peter Riegert

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I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.

Pete Postlethwaite

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You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Tina Turner

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